ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,739, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating map data" was invented by Arnau Franci Rodon (San Francisco), Soroush Dean Khadem (San Francisco), Till Kroeger (Chicago) and Weiying Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided comprising receiving first sensor data associated with a first vehicle pose and second sensor data associated with a second vehicle pose. A user input is received via a user interface indicating a position associated with a feature represented in the first sensor data and the second sensor data. Based at least in part ...