ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,524, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Automated comfort score" was invented by Brendan Tomoschuk (San Diego), Sofya Pugach (Somerville, Mass.), Xiao Lin (Campbell, Calif.) and Vladyslav Mysla (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing kinematic and contextual comfort scores to autonomous vehicle rides. In particular, systems and methods are provided to automatically identify driving events such as unusual acceleration, braking, and steering events, and determine the severity of identified events. Some example events include a hard braking event, a swerv...