US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on Sept. 30 for "Redundant hardware and software architecture for autonomous vehicles" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,004, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Redundant hardware and software architecture for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Frederic Rocha (San Diego), Zehua Huang (San Diego), Xiaoling Han (San Diego), Ruiliang Zhang (San Diego), Esayas Naizghi (Tucson, Ariz.) and Changyi Zhao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundant hardware and software architecture can be designed to enable vehicles to be operated in an autonomous mode while improving the reliability and/or safety of such vehicles. A system for redundant architecture can include a set of at least two redundant sensors coupled to a vehi...