ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,382, issued on April 14, was assigned to Applied Intuition Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Process scheduling based on data arrival in an autonomous vehicle" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Volkmar Uhlig (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process scheduling based on data arrival in an autonomous vehicle, including: receiving, by a node and from one or more other nodes of a distributed automation computing system, a plurality of portions of data; generating a process schedule by scheduling, for each portion of data of the plurality of portions of data, a process for processing a corresponding portion ...