US Patent Issued to BAIDU USA on April 8 for "Distributional expert demonstrations for autonomous driving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,507, issued on April 8, was assigned to BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Distributional expert demonstrations for autonomous driving" was invented by Szu-Hao Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shu Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yu Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Weiman Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ang Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jiangtao Hu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and techniques for evaluating and improving algorithms for autonomous driving planning and control (PNC), using one or more metrics (e.g., similarity scores) computed based on expert demonstrations. For example, the one or more metr...