US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 3 for "Collision evaluation for log-based simulations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,258, issued on June 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Collision evaluation for log-based simulations" was invented by Carl Nygaard (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Ruben Stacey McCarthy (San Francisco) and James Stout (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to testing software for operating an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a first simulation may be run. The simulation may be run using the software to control a simulated vehicle and at least one agent. During the running of the first simulation, whether a particular type of interaction between the simulated vehicle and the at ...