ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,206, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Filtering autonomous driving simulation scenarios" was invented by Alessandro Iyra (Oakland, Calif.) and Vivek Rangaswamy (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for filtering autonomous driving scenarios for simulations includes circuitry and a graphical processing unit (GPU). The circuitry receives data encoding a first autonomous driving scenario, and generates a first embedding of the first autonomous driving scenario based on a model for transforming autonomous driving scenario data to an embedding. A GPU compares the fir...