US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Oct. 28 for "Metrics for evaluating autonomous vehicle performance" (Pennsylvania, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,280, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Metrics for evaluating autonomous vehicle performance" was invented by Skanda Shridhar (Pittsburgh), Yuhang Ma (Pittsburgh), Tara Lynn Stentz (Pittsburgh), Zhengdi Shen (Pittsburgh), Galen Clark Haynes (Pittsburgh) and Neil Traft (Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating performance metrics for autonomous vehicle systems are provided. The performance metrics include two complementary metrics that evaluate a machine-learning object prediction model relative to a number of potential trajectories of an autonomous vehicl...