ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,168, issued on June 23, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Validation of teleoperations system for autonomous vehicles using interactive validation scene playback" was invented by Nicholas Moy (San Francisco), Sreeja Nag (San Bruno, Calif.), William Maddern (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alan Liu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleoperations system enables remote teleoperations monitoring and/or control of a vehicle. The teleoperations system may be validated and a teleoperations operator of the teleoperations system may be evaluated using interactive validation scene playbacks. Scenes may be recorded durin...