US Patent Issued to Motional on Oct. 14 for "Vehicle action selection based on simulated states" (Massachusetts, Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,368, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Vehicle action selection based on simulated states" was invented by Caglayan Dicle (Melrose, Mass.), Benjamin Riviere (Pasadena, Calif.), Eric Wolff (Zephyr, Nev.) and Dmitry S. Yershov (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scene simulation system can use scene data of a scene of a vehicle to generate one or more simulated states and one or more simulated trajectories associated with the one or more simulated states. The system can evaluate the simulated trajectories and select an action for the vehicle based on the evaluation of the simulated trajectories....