ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,412, issued on July 14, was assigned to APOLLO AUTONOMOUS DRIVING USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Safety and performance for logic design in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Manjiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Haofeng Kou (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method that retrieves a plurality of logic blocks and a plurality of safety levels corresponding to the plurality of logic blocks. The system and method determines, by a processor, which of the plurality of logic blocks require one or more redundant logic blocks based on their corresponding safety level. The system an...