ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,858, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Hybrid log simulated driving" was invented by Andres Guillermo Morales Morales (San Francisco), Samir Parikh (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Kai Zhenyu Wang (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a response of a simulated vehicle to a simulated object in a simulation are discussed herein. Log data captured by a physical vehicle in an environment can be received. Object data representing an object in the log data can be used to instantiate a simulated object in a simulation to determine a response of a simulated vehicle to the simu...