ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,019, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Electronic device for autonomous driving and configuration method thereof" was invented by Yu-Tsai Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Ta-Chuan Chiu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, applied on a smart car with a plurality of sensors, includes at least one network switching circuit, at least one motherboard circuit, and a power supply circuit. The network switching circuit is coupled to the sensors of the smart car to receive sensing data from the sensors and to output the sensing data. The motherboard circuit includes a netw...