ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,413, issued on July 14, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for handling failures in an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Yann Quibriac (Lyons, France) and Nicolas Perraud (Genas, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling failures in an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method comprises detecting a failure in the autonomous vehicle. The method further comprises determining whether the autonomous vehicle is in an open road area or in a restricted area. When the autonomous vehicle is determined to be in the restricted area, the method comprises handling the failure according...