US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Jan. 13 for "Low-disruption maintenance of cluster infrastructure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,221, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Low-disruption maintenance of cluster infrastructure" was invented by Nitish Krishna Kaveri Poompatnam Chandrasekaran (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jonathan Langefeld (Lathrop, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Applications supporting operations of an autonomous vehicle fleet can be implemented on and supported by cluster infrastructure. Demands on the cluster infrastructure from these systems can vary greatly and change often. Specifications for the hardware and software for the cluster infrastructure may be updated frequently. Therefore, significant res...