US Patent Issued to Tesla on June 23 for "Autonomous driving system emergency signaling" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,050, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Autonomous driving system emergency signaling" was invented by Michael D. Cave (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular autonomous driving system includes a time division multiplexed (TDM) bus, an autonomous driving (AD) controller coupled to the TDM bus, and a plurality of AD sensors coupled to the TDM bus. The AD sensors are configured to collect AD data and transmit collected AD data to the AD controller on the TDM bus in an assigned time slot at a first power level. A first AD sensor of the plurality of AD sensors is configured to, based upon co...