US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 3 for "Using simulations to identify differences between behaviors of manually-driven and autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,233, issued on March 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using simulations to identify differences between behaviors of manually-driven and autonomous vehicles" was invented by Brian Cohen (San Francisco), Guillaume Dupre (San Francisco), Jared Russell (San Francisco), Eric Schoenfeld (San Francisco) and Jack Joseph Wanderman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation may be used to determine a difference between progress of a manually-driven vehicle and progress of a simulated autonomous vehicle. The method includes retrieving log data collected for the manually-driven vehicle driving along a route...