ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,867, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Simulation for validation including latency injection" was invented by Xiaojie Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Xiyue Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Ziren Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anant Desai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hanhong Gao (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, methods for simulating operations of an autonomous vehicle in which latencies associated between various components of the autonomous vehicle are injected into a simulation for validating an autonomous driving system (autonomy system and/or simulation system) for drivi...