US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on July 22 for "Generating autonomous vehicle simulation data from logged data" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,086, issued on July 22, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Generating autonomous vehicle simulation data from logged data" was invented by John Michael Wyrwas (Cupertino, Calif.), Jessica Elizabeth Smith (Pittsburgh) and Simon Box (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logged data from an autonomous vehicle is processed to generate augmented data. The augmented data describes an actor in an environment of the autonomous vehicle, the actor having an associated actor type and an actor motion behavior characteristic. The augmented data may be varied to create different sets of augmented data. The sets of augmen...