US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 23 for "Simulation-based training of an autonomous vehicle" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,791, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Simulation-based training of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Daniela Rus (Weston, Mass.), Sertac Karaman (Cambridge, Mass.), Igor Gilitschenski (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexander Amini (Cambridge, Mass.), Julia Moseyko (Orinda, Calif.) and Jacob Phillips (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for an autonomous vehicle is trained using simulated paths on a roadway and simulated observations that are formed by transforming images previously acquired on similar paths on that roadway. Essentially an unlimited number of path...