ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,006, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.) and Renault S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Mobility manager trainer for improved autonomy in exception handling" was invented by Kevin Poulet (Menlo Park, Calif.), Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.), Omar Bentahar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Laura Cesafsky (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for resolving an exception situation in autonomous driving includes receiving telemetry data from an autonomous vehicle (AV); identifying, using the telemetry data, features and feature values; identifying, using the features and the feat...