US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on March 11 for "System-level malfunction indicator in autonomous vehicles" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,013, issued on March 11, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"System-level malfunction indicator in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Xiaoling Han (San Diego) and Yu-Ju Hsu (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for using system-level malfunction indicators to monitor the operation and resiliency of the autonomous driving system components are described. One example of a method for diagnosing a fault in a component of an autonomous vehicle includes receiving, from an electrical sub-component of the component, an electrical signal, receiving, from an electronic sub-component of the compon...