ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,928, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to PRONTO.AI INC. (San Francisco).

"System and method for updating an autonomous vehicle driving model based on the vehicle driving model becoming statistically incorrect" was invented by Anthony Levandowski (San Francisco), David Bernstein (San Francisco), Eli Riggs (San Francisco) and Catherine Culkin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of autonomous driving. A first vehicle enters an autonomous driving mode that follows a second vehicle. While the first vehicle is following the second vehicle, a change in a second position of the second vehicle is determined. It is determin...