ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,801, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Generating autonomous vehicle testing data through perturbations and adversarial loss functions" was invented by Jingkang Wang (Toronto), Ava Alison Pun (Toronto), Xuanyuan Tu (Milton, Canada), Mengye Ren (Toronto), Abbas Sadat (Toronto), Sergio Casas (Toronto), Sivabalan Manivasagam (Toronto) and Raquel Urtasun (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating testing data for an autonomous vehicle (AV) are described herein. A system can obtain sensor data descriptive of a traffic scenario. The traffic scenario can include a subject vehicle a...