ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,142, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Safety measurement for a counterfactual risk in autonomous vehicle driving" was invented by Geoffrey Louis Chi-Johnston (San Francisco), Laura Athena Freeman (Golden, Colo.), Christopher Brian Roland (Santa Monica, Calif.), Daniel Tien (San Franciso, Calif.), Feng Tian (Foster City, Calif.), Seunghyun Min (Oakland, Calif.), Lei Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Diego Plascencia-Vega (San Francisco) and Ou Jin (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to training and using a machine learning model to predict a likelih...