US Patent Issued to Five AI on March 17 for "Tools for performance testing and/or training autonomous vehicle planners" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,864, issued on March 17, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Tools for performance testing and/or training autonomous vehicle planners" was invented by Francisco Eiras (Bristol, Great Britain), Majd Hawasly (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Subramanian Ramamoorthy (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of evaluating the performance of a target planner for an ego robot comprises receiving evaluation data for evaluating the performance of the target planner in the scenario, generated by applying the target planner at incrementing planning steps, to compute a series of ...