ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,589, issued on May 12, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for simulating traffic scenes" was invented by Shuhan Tan (Austin, Texas), Kelvin Ka Wing Wong (Vancouver, Canada), Shenlong Wang (Urbana, Ill.), Sivabalan Manivasagam (Toronto), Mengye Ren (Toronto) and Raquel Urtasun (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects of the present disclosure describe a scene generator for simulating scenes in an environment. For example, snapshots of simulated traffic scenes can be generated by sampling a joint probability distribution trained on real-world traffic scenes. In some implementations, ...