ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,594, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for ingesting data based on predefined driving sequences" was invented by Clement Besson (San Francisco), Antonio Prioletti (Redwood City, Calif.), Deepan Subrahmanian Palguna (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eric Yan Tin Chu (San Jose, Calif.), Adam Kane Wiener (New York) and Andrew Glen Tsao (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques associated with ingesting data based on the catalog are discussed herein. In some examples, log data associated with a vehicle in an environment can be received. The log data can include at least one of...