ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,477, issued on March 24, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Autonomous vehicle validation using real-world adversarial events" was invented by Amitai Bin-Nun (Silver Spring, Md.), Radboud Duintjer Tebbens (Winchester, Mass.), Anne Collin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Cristhian Guillermo Lizarazo Jimenez (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for autonomous vehicle validation using real-world adversarial events are described herein. The method includes obtaining a record of human driver data and extracting at least one safety critical scenario from the record to create a t...