ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,096, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Baselining autonomous vehicle safety using driving data of human autonomous vehicle operators" was invented by Feng Tian (Foster City, Calif.), Seunghyun Min (Oakland, Calif.), Laura Athena Freeman (Golde, Colo.), Lei Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Tien (San Francisco), Geoffrey Louis Chi-Johnston (San Franciso, Calif.) and Christopher Brian Roland (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and computer-readable media for configuring an autonomous vehicle based on safety scores determined by a safety score prediction algorith...