US Patent Issued to Zoox on May 5 for "Risk determination for autonomous vehicle simulations" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,431, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Risk determination for autonomous vehicle simulations" was invented by Clement Besson (San Francisco), Jonathan Philip Wai Wah Chan (San Francisco), Gary Linscott (Seattle) and Nathan David Shemonski (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and computer-readable media for determining metrics associated with simulations of proximity events within autonomous vehicle simulations. In some examples, a simulation may be created using driving log data from an autonomous vehicle. Portions of the simulation containing proximity events may be analyz...