ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,865, issued on March 17, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).
"Control system testing utilizing rulebook scenario generation" was invented by Shakiba Yaghoubi (Cambridge, Mass.), Calin Belta (Sherborn, Mass.), Noushin Mehdipour (Allston, Mass.) and Radboud Duintjer Tebbens (Newton Center, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for testing of a control system of a vehicle using generated rulebook based scenarios, which can include determining a simulated environment, receiving a hierarchical plurality of autonomous vehicle rules, determining a trajectory of a simulated vehicle within the simulated environment,...