ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,455, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Purposeful stress testing of autonomous vehicle response time with simulation" was invented by Sidney Oderberg (San Francisco), Christopher Kniffin (San Diego), Robert Tsai (San Francisco), Samuel J. Abrahams (Falls Church, Va.), Sagar Tatipamula (Mountain View, Calif.), Pradeep Bhatta (Princeton, N.J.), Zhe Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Tommaso Colombo (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments for facilitating purposeful stress testing of autonomous vehicle response time with simulation. In some aspects, an embodiment inc...