ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,330, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tongji University (Shanghai).

"Intelligent testing method for autonomous driving based on interaction of multiple background traffic participants" was invented by Lulu Guo (Shanghai), Mengge Sun (Shanghai) and Hong Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent testing method for autonomous driving based on interaction of multiple background traffic participants, which includes the following steps: obtaining a test scenario and path information of traffic interactors in the test scenario, wherein the traffic interactors include a vehicle under test and background traffic participa...