US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 12 for "Non-determinism testing for software for controlling autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,017, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Non-determinism testing for software for controlling autonomous vehicles" was invented by Aleksandar Rumenov Gabrovski (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew Hughes Chatham (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relate to detecting differences indicative of non-determinism in software used to control autonomous vehicles. For instance, a simulation may be run using the software at least two times. The output of the simulations may be tracked. The output of the simulations includes messages may be generated by a decision making module of the s...