ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,115, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Redundant hardware system for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Emily Chi (Los Angeles), Ryan Joseph Andrade (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael James (Northville, Mich.), Christian Lauterbach (Campbell, Calif.), Etai Bruhis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher Kennedy Ludwick (Los Altos, Calif.), Alexander Zbrozek (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pieter Kapsenberg (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhuyuan Liu (Los Altos, Calif.) and Daniel Rosenband (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to partially redundant equi...