US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 5 for "Independent safety monitoring of an automated driving system" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,867, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Independent safety monitoring of an automated driving system" was invented by Umberto Santoni (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Riccardo Mariani (Calci, Italy) and John Weast (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated driving system includes a security companion subsystem to access data generated at a compute subsystem of the automated driving system, which indicates a determination by the compute subsystem associated with an automated driving task. The security companion subsystem determines whether the determination is safe based on the data. The security compan...