ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,188, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Determining a coverage of autonomous vehicle simulation tests" was invented by Priti Maheswari (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for expanding a scope of coverage of test scenarios for training an autonomous vehicle (AV). An example method can include identifying a maneuver of an AV; receiving, from a test repository, a plurality of tests that includes the maneuver; identifying one or more segments on a map of an operational design domain (ODD) that include a driving environment for the maneuver; determin...