US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 22 for "Realism metric for testing software for controlling autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,326, issued on July 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Realism metric for testing software for controlling autonomous vehicles" was invented by Aleksandar Gabrovski (Mountain View, Calif.), Yang-Hua Chu (Menlo Park, Calif.) and James Stout (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relate to determining a realism metric for testing software for operating a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a plurality of versions of a simulation may be run using log data collected by a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode. The plurality of versions may be run using the softw...