ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,449, issued on June 10, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Safe vehicle operation using log data" was invented by Kshitij Agarwal (Redwood City, Calif.), Thomas Bernard Gacka (Redwood City, Calif.), Pengzhi Tian (Dublin, Calif.), Julia A. Wyatt (Sudbury, Mass.) and Gerrit Bagschik (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for generating and evaluating autonomous vehicle control systems. In examples, a driving scenario is determined and log data, e.g., generated from user-supported vehicles travelling in an environment, may be used to determine instances in which vehicles experi...