ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,435, issued on April 15, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Autonomous vehicle control based on changing weather conditions" was invented by Sagar Tatipamula (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling operation of an autonomous vehicle (AV) based on changing weather conditions. A weather state that is changing in an environment during operation of an AV can be identified based on data gathered by the AV operating in the environment. An extent that the weather state has changed in the environment ca...