ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,660, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle teleoperations system" was invented by Gwennael Herve Jonathan Gate (Pittsburgh), Dmitriy Kislovskiy (Pittsburgh), Narek Melik-Barkhudarov (Edgewood, Calif.) and Nathaniel Gist IV (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleoperations system may be used to selectively override conditions detected by an autonomous vehicle to enable the autonomous vehicle to effectively ignore detected conditions that are identified as false positives by the teleoperations system. Furthermore, a teleoperations system may be used to generate ...