ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,027, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Behavior characterization" was invented by Ishan Singh (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for grouping behaviors based on behavior signatures. Event data gathered for an autonomous vehicle (AV) test is accessed. A signature for the AV behavior is identified from the event data. The signature is defined by features occurring during the AV behavior. The signature for the AV behavior is compared to signatures of one or more other AV behaviors. AV behaviors...