ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,256, issued on May 12, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Determining localization error" was invented by Shahram Rezaei (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides solutions for improving the accuracy of localization error estimates and in particular, provides methods for improving the accuracy of error estimates associated with individual localizers. A method of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving a first location error estimate, corresponding with a first localizer of a first autonomous vehicle (AV), receiving a second location error estimate, corresp...