US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 15 for "Autonomous driving evaluation using data analysis" (Japanese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,434, issued on April 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Autonomous driving evaluation using data analysis" was invented by Yoshifumi Sakamoto (Shiga-ken, Japan), Kentaro Aota (Aichi, Japan), John Maxwell Cohn (Richmond, Vt.) and Hardy Groeger (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for evaluating autonomous vehicle safety that includes defining criteria for safety of autonomous vehicles in a test space, and dividing the test space into an intended test space and a un-intended test space for the criteria for safety of autonomous vehicles. The inte...