US Patent Issued to WAYMO on July 14 for "Snapshots for evaluating component operation in autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,386, issued on July 14, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Snapshots for evaluating component operation in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Shir Yehoshua (San Francisco) and Benjamin Charrow (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology involves evaluating components of an autonomous vehicle that can be meaningfully evaluated over a single operational iteration. One or more snapshots of single iteration scenarios can be tested quickly and efficiently, either on vehicle or via a back-end system. Each snapshot corresponds to a particular point in time when a given component runs. Each snapsho...