US Patent Issued to Nissan North America, The University of Massachusetts on July 1 for "Online state space refinement for competence-aware systems" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,280, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.) and The University of Massachusetts (Boston).

"Online state space refinement for competence-aware systems" was invented by Connor Basich (Northampton, Mass.), Kyle Hollins Wray (Mountain View, Calif.), Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.) and Shlomo Zilberstein (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first method includes detecting, based on sensor data, an environment state; selecting an action based on the environment state; determining an autonomy level associated with the environment state and the action; and performing the action according...