ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,113, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for automated driving high performance computing" was invented by Haikuan Qiu (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated driving high performance computing (AD HPC) system for a vehicle includes a base HPC layer including HPC hardware and an upper software layer above the base HPC layer, the upper software layer including an intermediate basic software layer including at least one operating system (OS) and middleware, and an upper application software layer above the intermediate basic software layer and including a set of aut...