ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,201, 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), Sebastian Kaltwang (Cambridge, Great Britain), Blaine Rogers (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jonathan Sadeghi (Bristol, Great Britain), James Gunn (Cambridge, Great Britain), Torran Elson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Adam Charytoniuk (Cambridge, 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 ...