ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,396, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ottopia Technologies Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Minimal risk maneuvering in remotely operated vehicles" was invented by Alexander Kirshon (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for initiating safety maneuvers. A method includes creating an interactions chain data structure for an interactions chain, wherein the interactions chain includes a plurality of chain links arranged in an order, the plurality of chain links representing a plurality of components used for communications between a vehicle and at least one operation system, wherein the interactions chain data stru...