ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,663, issued on July 28, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods for risk management for autonomous devices and related node" was invented by Rafia Inam (Vasteras, Sweden), Alberto Hata (Campinas SP, Brazil) and Ahmad Ishtar Terra (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a risk management node for autonomous devices. The risk management node may determine state parameters from a representation of an environment. The representation of the environment may include an object, an autonomous device, and a set of safety zones. The risk management node may determine a reward valu...