ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,280, issued on June 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Displaying updated vehicle behavior in real time visualizations" was invented by Paul Roales (Mountain View, Calif.), Shir Yehoshua (San Francisco) and Franklin Morley (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology employs snapshots, which are serialized sets of inputs for evaluating a components of a vehicle's autonomous driving system. Snapshots can be performed very quickly with minimal compile latency and runtime, allowing rapid evaluation of individual autonomous vehicle elements in isolation. Parameter variation and cha...