US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Aug. 25 for "Autonomous vehicle entity vector-based situational awareness scoring matrix" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,431, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Autonomous vehicle entity vector-based situational awareness scoring matrix" was invented by Richard John Wallner (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises steps including detecting, while piloting a route to a destination location, a plurality of road entities; assigning each of the plurality of road entities a provisional unique identifier; receiving an indication from an external source of at least one certified object identifier associated respectively with at least one of the plurality of provisional unique ...