ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,806, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Generating simulations based on real-world scenarios" was invented by Hariprasad Govardhanam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and computer-readable media for processing real-world environments into feature vectors that can be randomly selected into a synthetic scene. Scene data is provided to a generative machine-learning network that processes road types, environment lighting conditions, object behaviors, and AV trajectories of an AV driving scene from the sensor data into feature embeddings that represent such features f...