US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 24 for "Simulations for evaluating driving behaviors of autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,847, issued on March 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Simulations for evaluating driving behaviors of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Jonathan Lee Pedersen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Evaluating a simulation of an autonomous vehicle may be performed by using one or more processors to receive log data collected for a given area, generate environment data for the given area using the log data, run the set of simulations using an autonomous vehicle software, extract one or more metrics from the set of simulations, and evaluate the set of simulations using the one or more metrics. The set of...