US Patent Issued to BAIDU USA, APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) on Feb. 17 for "Dual path ethernet-based sensor device fault monitoring" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,406, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Dual path ethernet-based sensor device fault monitoring" was invented by Guoli Shu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kedong Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) processes a set of sensor data concurrently by both a first computing unit and a second computing unit, wherein the set of sensor data is generated by a sensor. The first computing unit formats the set of sensor data into a set of message data. The second computing unit determines w...