ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,772, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Transition to safe state based on age/integrity of critical messages" was invented by Matthew Thomas Myers (San Francisco) and Nicholas Julian Pelly (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicles rely on many types of information for operation. Such information may include safety critical information, which may be information essential to safe operation of the system. In an example, a vehicle system may identify events associated with critical information. Events may include failing to receive critical information as expected or determinin...