ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,293, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Continuous learning machine using closed course scenarios for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Burkay Donderici (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to obtaining sensor data and processed sensor data related to a base world scenario encountered by an AV entity. The sensor data and processed sensor data may be assessed to determine an importance value for the base world scenario. When the importance value is above a threshold, a closed course staging system may stage a re-creation of the base world scenari...