US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Computer-based management of accident prevention in autonomous vehicles" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,411, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer-based management of accident prevention in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Fang Lu (Billerica, Mass.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve improving impact prevention in both manual and autonomous vehicles embodiments of the present invention generate a knowledge corpus based on data collected, from one or more internet of thing (IoT) sensors, associated with one or more predetermined risk factors o...