US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 28 for "Vehicle state aware cloud resource management" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,844, issued on July 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Vehicle state aware cloud resource management" was invented by Lilith Rogue Automata (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mitigating the impact of cloud service downtime, migration to a new cloud instance/container, and/or software update on a vehicle or fleet of vehicles may include receiving an indication that a vehicle is experiencing or is scheduled to experience downtime; determining, based at least in part on the indication, a criterion indicating a minimum vehicle state for the vehicle to be prepared for the downtime; determining, based at leas...