US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Sept. 29 for "Evaluating driving data using autonomous vehicle control system" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,945, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Evaluating driving data using autonomous vehicle control system" was invented by Arun Venkatraman (Pittsburgh), James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh) and Haoyang Fan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for evaluating manual driving data using an AV control system based on differences between data generated using the AV control system and the manual driving data. In many implementations, manual driving data captures action(s) of a vehicle controlled by a manual driver. Additionally or alternatively, an additional AV co...