ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,661, issued on July 28, was assigned to Kodiak Robotics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle by teleoperation based on map creation" was invented by Albert N. Moser (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems and methods for controlling a vehicle by teleoperations based on map creation. The method may include: receiving, at the autonomous vehicle, a teleoperation input from a teleoperation system through a communication link, wherein the teleoperation input comprises a modification to at least a portion of an existing trajectory of the autonomous vehic...