ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,967, issued on April 7, was assigned to Gatik AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for addressing failure in an autonomous agent" was invented by Apeksha Kumavat (Palo Alto, Calif.), Brian McLean (Palo Alto, Calif.), Siddharth Ram (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arjun Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gautam Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for addressing failure in an autonomous agent includes a driving subsystem, a control subsystem, a central computing subsystem, and an autonomous vehicle (AV) sensor subsystem. The system can optionally additionally include a power subsystem, a vehicle chassis sub...