ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,276, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method of adaptively tuning parameters in action planning for automated driving" was invented by Stefano Bonasera (Royal Oak, Mich.), Daniel Aguilar Marsillach (Detroit) and Sayyed Rouhollah Jafari Tafti (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adaptively tuning parameters in action planning for automated driving of a vehicle to a destination is provided. The method comprises receiving sensor data from a vehicle sensor, lane data of a road plan to the destination, and a plurality of first hyperparameters in a reinforcemen...