US Patent Issued to Nissan North America, The University of Massachusetts on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle decision making using sequential information probing" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,113, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.) and The University of Massachusetts (Boston).

"Vehicle decision making using sequential information probing" was invented by Marcell Jose Vazquez-Chanlatte (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.), Shlomo Zilberstein (Amherst, Mass.) and Saaduddin Mahmud (Amhurst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle decision-making is analyzed and can be used to modify a decision-making process. For subsets of features comprising a vehicle operational scenario, a first value is generated that quantifies behavior of an artificial intelligence ...