ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,321, issued on March 11, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"System and method for generating simulated vehicles with configured behaviors for analyzing autonomous vehicle motion planners" was invented by Xingdong Li (San Diego), Xing Sun (San Diego), Wutu Lin (San Diego) and Liu Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating simulated vehicles with configured behaviors for analyzing autonomous vehicle motion planners are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: obtaining configuration instructions and data for each of a plurality of simulated vehicles, a specific driving behavior for ea...