US Patent Issued to Nissan North America, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Aug. 4 for "Backward monte Carlo tree search model for monitoring and analyzing safety of belief reasoning for autonomous vehicles" (California, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,999, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Backward monte Carlo tree search model for monitoring and analyzing safety of belief reasoning for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Anil Yildiz (Stanford, Calif.), Esen Yel (Cohoes, N.Y.), Marcell Jose Vazquez-Chanlatte (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kyle Hollins Wray (Boston), Mykel Kochenderfer (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle traversing a vehicle transportation network may use a scenario-specific operat...