ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,824, issued on July 14, was assigned to GLAZBERG APPLEBAUM & Co. ADVOCATES AND PATENT ATTORNEYS (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Autonomous vehicles implementing user-based decision making" was invented by Ziv Glazberg (Haifa, Israel) and Shmuel Ur (Shorashim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and product for implementing user-based ethical decision making in autonomous vehicles. The system includes an ethical investigator that presents an ethical questioner to an entity and collects the entity's responses. An ethical synthesizer synthesizes an ethical preference of the entity based on the collected responses. An ethical det...