ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,525, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Fault diagnosis for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Lilith Rogue Automata (San Francisco), Patrick Rice (San Francisco), Jae Kyung Chong (Redwood City, Calif.), James Peter Gregory (Berkeley, Calif.) and Maria Smirnoff (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles may include a wide range of individual components and systems that work together to achieve advanced and high-performance states. A system correlates active faults arising among vehicle components to active constraints to determine what fault may be contributing to limited operations. ...