US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 17 for "Method, system, and media for calculating a surprise score by comparing a posterior state to a prior probability distribution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,889, issued on March 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method, system, and media for calculating a surprise score by comparing a posterior state to a prior probability distribution" was invented by Azadeh Dinparastdjadid (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Johan Engstrom (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haoyu Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Isaac Supeene (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Menghui Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing a backward looking surprise metric for autonomously driven vehicles. One of the methods inclu...