ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,232, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Safely scheduling offloading of computing tasks for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque (Irvine, Calif.), Yasser Shoukry Ahmed Sakr (Irvine, Calif.), Mohanad Mohamed Abdelmagid Abdelkhale Odema (Irvine, Calif.) and James Robert Ferlez (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local computing device of a vehicle receives a stream of sensor data from one or sensors of the vehicle. If a remote computing device is estimated to process the stream of sensor data and provide driving instructions with...