ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,815, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Automatic testing of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Erik Nielsen (Peoria, Ariz.) and Chase Kaufman (Fountain Hills, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to instruct an autonomous vehicle to navigate a specific course and to record diagnostic measurements while navigating the specific course, receive the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle, and analyze the diagnostic measurements from the autonomous vehicle in a context provided by a collection of diagnostic measur...