US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Dec. 2 for "Learning autonomous vehicle safety concepts from demonstrations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,890, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Learning autonomous vehicle safety concepts from demonstrations" was invented by Karen Yan Ming Leung (Los Altos, Calif.), Sushant Veer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edward Fu Schmerling (Los Altos, Calif.) and Marco Pavone (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, control policies for controlling agents may be learned from demonstrations capturing joint states of entities navigating through the environment. A control policy may be learned mapping joint states to control actions, where the joint states are between agents, and the control act...