US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on June 23 for "Mitigating outage of service provided by autonomous vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,162, issued on June 23, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Mitigating outage of service provided by autonomous vehicle" was invented by Srishti Koduvayur (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AV may determine a degradation score based on data indicating a condition of an environment where the AV operates to provide a service. The degradation score may indicate a degradation in a performance of the AV (e.g., one or more sensors of the AV) under the condition. After determining that the degradation score is higher than a threshold, the AV may pause the service, e.g., by moving out of the traffic la...