US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Sept. 8 for "Perception validation for autonomous vehicles" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,891, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Perception validation for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Davis Edward King (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes (a) obtaining an object detection from a perception system that describes an object in an environment of the autonomous vehicle; (b) obtaining, from a reference dataset, a label that describes a reference position of the object in the environment; (c) determining a plurality of component divergence values respectively for a plurality of divergence metrics, wherein a respective divergence value character...