US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Context-based remote autonomous vehicle assistance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,291, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Context-based remote autonomous vehicle assistance" was invented by Sean Shanshi Chen (San Francisco), Samann Ghorbanian-Matloob (San Francisco), Brent Justin Goldman (San Francisco) and Michael Guanran Huang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles are provided. Assisted autonomy tasks facilitated by operators for a plurality of autonomous vehicles can be tracked in order to generate operator attributes for each of a plurality of operators. The attributes for an operator can be based on tracking...