US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Oct. 14 for "Estimating autonomous vehicle performance metrics in real world from simulation scenarios" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,247, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Estimating autonomous vehicle performance metrics in real world from simulation scenarios" was invented by James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh), Juan Pablo Mendoza (San Francisco), Arun Venkatraman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Paul Vernaza (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Evaluating the performance of an autonomous vehicle includes determining a plurality of simulation scenarios, determining a set of features correlated to a performance metric of interest for the autonomous vehicle, executing a simulation for each simulation scenario in the plu...