US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Sept. 16 for "Become an AV test operator as a passenger" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,542, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Become an AV test operator as a passenger" was invented by Kunal Mehta (Redwood City, Calif.), Matthew Owen Pugh (Danville, Calif.), Miles Avery Bowman (San Mateo, Calif.), Moorissa Meritseba Tjokro (San Francisco) and Adam Thomas Chase (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for obtaining passenger feedback during an autonomous vehicle (AV) ride are provided. Feedback can be obtained in different forms during the passenger's ride. For instance, the passenger may opt-in to shadow the AV as it performs various driving behav...