ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,722, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Zenseact AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Platform for path planning system development for automated driving system" was invented by Magnus Gyllenhammar (Pixbo, Sweden), Carl Zanden (Lindome, Sweden) and Majid Khorsand Vakilzadeh (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that utilize production vehicles to develop new path planning features for Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) by using federated learning. To achieve this the "under-test" path planning module's output is evaluated in closed-loop in order to produce a cost-function that is s...