ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,539, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatus for assessing scenes" was invented by Sreeja Nag (San Bruno, Calif.) and Sarah Marie Thornton (Pacifica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, methods to validate an autonomy system using scenes of various complexities are provided. A computing device obtains a plurality of scenes. Each of the plurality of scenes represents an environment in which a vehicle is driven for a predetermined time. The computing device determines a complexity of each of the plurality of scenes based on characteristics of a respective sce...