US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on March 3 for "Toggling network operator connectivity for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,420, issued on March 3, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Toggling network operator connectivity for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Kurt VonEhr (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Loss of connectivity between an AV with the back-office system may cause the vehicle to enter a degraded state, which may result in manual retrieval of the vehicle. The AV can maintain two redundant network data connections with two network operators using two dual-SIM, dual-standby network access devices. An algorithm can be implemented to select which two network operators to connect with using four different eSIMs...