US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on April 8 for "Rare scenario handling for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,510, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Rare scenario handling for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Burkay Donderici (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for rare scenario handling in autonomous vehicles. In some aspects, an AV management system can determine a target likelihood value range for identifying relevant rare scenarios. In some cases, the AV management system may use the target likelihood value range to generate new relevant rare scenarios that have a likelihood value that falls within the target likelihood value range. In some e...