ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,338, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Determination of reliability of vehicle control commands using a voting mechanism" was invented by Gil Golov (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle having a control element for the speed, acceleration or direction of the vehicle, multiple identical or redundant computing devices (e.g., each implemented as a system on chip (SoC)) to separately generate driving commands in parallel during autonomous driving of the vehicle, and a command controller coupled between the control element and the computing devices. The commands may ha...