ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,489, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Failover handling in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Shad Laws (Redwood City, Calif.) and Spyros Maniatopoulos (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for failover handling at a vehicle in response to a degraded state of operation are provided. For example, a method includes receiving, from a fallback vehicle path planner of a vehicle, data indicative of a fallback path; storing, at a memory of the vehicle, the data indicative of the fallback path; receiving, from a primary vehicle path planner of the vehicle, data indicati...