ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,189, issued on April 8, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Autonomous driving system component fault prediction" was invented by Atchyuth Gorti (Austin, Texas), David Glasco (Austin, Texas) and Daniel William Bailey (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular autonomous driving system includes a fault prediction unit, including a processor and memory, configured to predict a potential future fault condition by: monitoring performance data associated with the plurality of autonomous driving components; comparing the performance data associated with the plurality of autonomous driving components to a plurality o...