ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,475, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Restarting operations for recovery processes in autonomous systems" was invented by John Hoare (San Francisco), Drew Gross (San Francisco), Sneha Sinha (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Florian Courbet (Berkeley, Calif.), Daniel Loman (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Andreas Pasternak (Boulder, Colo.), Kais Sorrels (San Mateo, Calif.), Serhiy Buslovskyy (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Ryan Kollar (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Jonathan Lenoff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments for facilitating restarting operations for recovery processes in autonomous sy...