US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Oct. 21 for "Training machine learning model for controlling autonomous vehicle" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,813, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training machine learning model for controlling autonomous vehicle" was invented by Arun Venkatraman (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for training one or more cost functions of an autonomous vehicle ("AV") control system based on difference between data generated using the AV control system and manual driving data. In many implementations, manual driving data captures action(s) of a vehicle controlled by a manual driver. Additionally or alternatively, multiple AV c...