ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,410, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cavnue Technology LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Detection of latent failures in autonomous vehicles based on performance and operational status of a vehicle" was invented by David Hahn Clifford (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Demetrios Vasili Kellari (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for how to augment failure detection of a vehicle to detect failures that would otherwise go undetected by the control system of the vehicle, and to mitigate such failures when detected. Performance of the vehicle is observed over time, and based on these observations, the systems ...