ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,535, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Autonomous vehicle anomalous event detection" was invented by Christopher Paul Urmson (Los Altos, Calif.), Sterling J. Anderson (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and J. Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generative models may be used in the detection and/or handling of various events encountered by an autonomous vehicle during its operation. In addition, detected events may may be used in connection with various purposes external from the autonomous vehicle, e.g., for the purpose of surfacing various environmental conditions, events, or other circums...