ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,826, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Failsafe control of shared backup power for multiple power domains in an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Quresh Sutarwala (Fremont, Calif.), Paridhi Desai (San Mateo, Calif.), Heba Mustufa (Mountain View, Calif.), Noopur Divekar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Julien Lambert (Mountain View, Calif.), Albert Ng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael Lepkowski (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle can include multiple low voltage power domains. Each low voltage power domain can comprise a low voltage power distribution unit (LVPDU). An LVPD...