ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,207, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining adversarial cost based on generated deviations" was invented by Abishek Krishna Akella (Pleasanton, Calif.), Timothy Caldwell (Boulder, Colo.), Clark Michael Davenport (San Bruno, Calif.), Marin Kobilarov (Baltimore), Joseph Lorenzetti (Foster City, Calif.), Anjali Lakshmi Pemmaraju (San Francisco), Shahriar Sefati (San Francisco), Seyed Mahdi Shamsi (Daly City, Calif.) and Jacob Patrick Thalman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining adversarial cost(s) representing an object in an environment are described herein. ...