US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Sept. 16 for "Human assisted live operations systems and methods" (California, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,780, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Human assisted live operations systems and methods" was invented by Theresa Foy (San Francisco), Christopher Warren (Seattle), Livia Johanna (San Francisco), Bharatkumar Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Leah Meyerholtz (San Francisco), Qingxuan Li (San Mateo, Calif.), David J. Shuckerow (Seattle), MinJie Tong (Issaquah, Wash.), Vinayaka Dattatraya (Mill Creek, Wash.), Kendal Sparks (New York) and McKenna Morey (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method of operating an autonomous vehicle (AV), including: detecting an alert conditi...