ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,492, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Guident Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Artificial intelligence methods and systems for remote monitoring and control of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Clifford Gross (Miami) and Harald Braun (Highland Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods relate to a controller configured to monitor incident risk levels of multiple independently governed autonomous vehicles remote from the controller simultaneously; and, in response to an unsafe incident risk level for one or more vehicles, take control of vehicles having an unsafe incident risk level, to restore a safe incident ris...