US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Method for directing, scheduling, and facilitating maintenance requirements for autonomous vehicle" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,522, issued on June 23.

"Method for directing, scheduling, and facilitating maintenance requirements for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Jeffery Derouen (Pineville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing automatic maintenance of an autonomous vehicle is disclosed. The method includes receiving a maintenance request from the autonomous vehicle, wherein the maintenance request includes diagnostic data. Further, the method includes analyzing the diagnostic data to identify at least one recommended car service for the autonomous vehicle and comparing a vehicle location against a plurality of facility locations to ...