US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Sept. 16 for "System and method for simulating autonomous vehicle testing environments" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,544, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"System and method for simulating autonomous vehicle testing environments" was invented by Xianghong Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shuo Feng (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Haowei Sun (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xintao Yan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Haojie Zhu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Zhengxia Zou (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Shengyin Shen (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for safety testing a host autonomous vehicle (AV). This method includes: generating a trained machine learning (ML) agent and testing the host AV in an environment that i...