ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,202, issued on April 8, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Performance testing for robotic systems" was invented by John Redford (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jonathan Sadeghi (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein, a "perception statistical performance model" (PSPM) for modelling a perception slice of a runtime stack for an autonomous vehicle or other robotic system may be used e.g. for safety/performance testing. A PSPM is configured to: receive a computed perception ground truth; determine from the perception ground truth, based on a set of learned parameters, a probabilistic percepti...