ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,882, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Map representation system and method for operating an autonomous agent" was invented by Omesh Tickoo (Portland, Ore.), Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.), David Israel Gonzalez Aguirre (Hillsboro, Ore.) and John Charles Weast (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects are related to a map representation system including one or more processors configured to: obtain operation task data, the operation task data indicating one or more operation tasks associated with an operation of one or more autonomous agents within a corresponding opera...