ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,997, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PlusAI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for autonomous vehicle accident mitigation" was invented by Liu Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Yefei Peng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hao Zheng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yu Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for scenario data generation. An example method can include processing location-specific sensor information of a traffic accident at a location on a road network, the location-specific sensor information received from a sensor arranged on an infrastructure at the road network. The method can further include determin...