ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,455, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Secure data delivery system using an autonomous vehicle" was invented by David Witters (Westchester, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure provide a system for secure data delivery, the system comprising: an autonomous vehicle including a data courier; data exceeding a predetermined threshold size, the data provided in an encrypted data structure secured by a digital key; and instructions for routing the data, the instructions including a location of a receiver and a route for routing the autonomous vehicle. The auton...