US Patent Issued to Zoox on June 24 for "Heuristic and machine learning agents in driving simulations" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,870, issued on June 24, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Heuristic and machine learning agents in driving simulations" was invented by Priam Mukundan (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for executing driving simulations where control of simulated agents is switched between different programmatic planners based on different driving scenarios encountered in the simulation. As an example, a simulation system may execute a driving simulation including a programmatic agent initially controlled using a heuristic planner. During the execution of the simulation, the simulation sys...