ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,051, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Identification and mitigation of attacks and/or malfunction of autonomous vehicles sensor involving disappearing object" was invented by Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to the identification and mitigation of jamming attacks on autonomous vehicles. A technique includes determining that an object previously detected is no longer detected by a sensor of a vehicle. The technique includes, in response to the object previously detected no longer being detected by the sensor, determining that another sen...