ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,116, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Tuning parameters used for generating simulated driving tests" was invented by Omnaath Guptha Harihara Gupta (Livermore, Calif.), Yeshaswi Laxman Menghmalani (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ritchie Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tools can generate simulated driving tests that allow a same driving scenario to be tested at different geographical locations and with different arrangements of simulated road user(s) and/or simulated road objects. Numerous parameters used by these tools for creating the simulated driving tests can impact the usefu...