ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,427, issued on April 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Evaluating driving data using autonomous vehicle control system" was invented by Arun Venkatraman (Mountain View, Calif.), James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh) and Haoyang Fan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for evaluating manual driving data using an AV control system based on differences between data generated using the AV control system and the manual driving data. In many implementations, manual driving data captures action(s) of a vehicle controlled by a manual driver. Additionally or alternatively, an addition...