ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,295, issued on April 7.
"Providing autonomous vehicle maintenance" was invented by Antonino Mondello (Messina, Italy) and Alberto Troia (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing autonomous vehicle assistance are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising detecting a service condition in response to a fault occurring at an autonomous vehicle at a first location; coordinating service with a nearby service provider, the service provider providing a time window and a second location; predicting that the autonomous vehicle will be free to fulfill the service; driving the autonomous vehicl...