US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for pareto domination-based learning" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,538, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for pareto domination-based learning" was invented by Brian D. Ziebart (Chicago) and Paul Vernaza (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving the performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) are described herein. A system can determine a plan for the AV in a driving scenario that optimizes an initial cost function of a control algorithm of the AV. The system can obtain data describing an observed human driving path in the driving scenario. Additionally, the system can determine for each cost dimension in the...