ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,837, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CreateAI Inc. (San Diego).

"Operational testing of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Zehua Huang (La Jolla, Calif.) and Yixin Yang (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for the operational testing on autonomous vehicles. One exemplary method includes configuring a primary vehicular model with an algorithm, calculating one or more trajectories for each of one or more secondary vehicular models that exclude the algorithm, configuring the one or more secondary vehicular models with a corresponding trajectory of the one or more trajectories, ...