ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,725, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Generating scene descriptions by a machine learned model" was invented by David Casterton (San Carlos, Calif.) and Sean Konz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a text description of a scene in an environment by a computing device are discussed herein. The scene can represent a simulated scene for use in a simulation between a vehicle (e.g., an autonomous vehicle) and one or more objects. The computing device can implement a machine learned model to generate a text description of the simulated scene based on receiving a title ...