US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 21 for "Controlling autonomous vehicles based on edge servers' resources" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,407, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controlling autonomous vehicles based on edge servers' resources" was invented by Shoichiro Watanabe (Tokyo), Kenichi Takasaki (Tokyo), Mari Abe Fukuda (Tokyo), Sanehiro Furuichi (Tokyo) and Tomonori Sugiura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for reducing loads of edge servers in an autonomous mobility environment. The load of an edge server, which controls autonomous vehicles located within the edge server's coverage area, is estimated. In response to the esti...