US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 29 for "System and method for comparing simulated environments for unmanned ground vehicle development and testing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,633, issued on April 29, was assigned to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio).

"System and method for comparing simulated environments for unmanned ground vehicle development and testing" was invented by Joseph A. Auchter (San Antonio), Jerry A. Towler (San Antonio) and Robert J. Brothers (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to comparing simulated environments for unmanned ground vehicle development and testing, a system includes stored program instructions, the stored program instructions configured to: receive a first simulation scene and a second simulation scene; calculate a first costmap for the first ...