ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,141, issued on June 23.

"Processing system for evaluating autonomous vehicle control systems through continuous learning" was invented by Juan Carlos Aragon (Redwood City, Calif.) and Regina Madigan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle evaluation system that performs continuous evaluation of the actions, strategies, preferences, margins, and responses of an autonomous driving control system. A computing platform may receive sensor data from one or more autonomous vehicle sensors, manufacturer computing platform, or V2X computing platform. Based on this sensor ...