US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 7 for "Scene generation using probabilistic programming languages" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,959, issued on April 7, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scene generation using probabilistic programming languages" was invented by Congrui Hetang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device, and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device, to receive a set of input data including a roadgraph and a distribution of a plurality of scene types associated with a driving context, the roadgraph including an autonomous vehicle driving path, perform stochastic sampling based on the distribution of the plurality of scene types to obtain a set of synthetic scenes...