ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,871, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle self-protection method and system, and autonomous driving vehicle including system" was invented by Xiaoming Duan (Shenzhen, China), Anming Shi (Shenzhen, China) and Chunlei Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle self-protection method includes obtaining ambient environment information and historical information of the vehicle. The environment information may include information such as a location of the vehicle, a cabin temperature of the vehicle, an external temperature of the vehicle, a tire...