US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on Oct. 7 for "Testing autonomous cars" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,340, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Testing autonomous cars" was invented by Regina Madigan (Mountain View, Calif.), William F. Polisson (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Mark V. Slusar (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining the efficacy of an autonomous vehicle driving system in exhibiting safe driving behavior during test track scenarios. Testing parameters eliciting autonomous vehicle driving system behavior may be chosen for the test track scenario. The autonomous vehicle driving system may be tested in the test track and autonomous vehicle dr...