ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,592, issued on July 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Object labeling for three-dimensional data" was invented by Maya Kabkab (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yulai Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Congyu Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sakshi Madan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating label data for one or more target objects in an environment. The system obtains first data characterizing the environment, wherein the first data includes position data characterizing a position of the target object. The s...