ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,518, issued on July 15, was assigned to EMBARK TRUCKS INC. (San Francisco).
"Autonomous vehicle automated scenario characterization" was invented by Marcus Sjolin (San Francisco) and David Watson (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method including receiving a plurality of messages generated by a vehicle, each of the messages being associated with an indicated topic; initializing one or more state machines, each state machine preconfigured with a one or more specified state parameters to define a specific scenario, the initializing commencing an execution of the one or more state machines; querying the plural...