ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,398, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Multi-vehicle remote assistance" was invented by Jeffrey William Straela Jr. (Winter Park, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to providing remote assistance to multiple autonomous vehicles and, more specifically, providing multiple requests for remote assistance to a remote assistance operator to provide sequential assistance. A method includes receiving, from a first autonomous vehicle, a first request for remote assistance; receiving, from a second autonomous vehicle, a second request for remote assistance; ide...