ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,396, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object controller validation" was invented by Tod Cameron Semple (Woodside, Calif.), Nathan David Shemonski (San Mateo, Calif.) and Qiaosi Chen (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating simulations to evaluate a performance of an object controller. The controller may be configured to control one or more functionalities of a simulated object (e.g., a "smart object") in a simulation, such as make the smart object operate like a human in a given scenario. A simulation system may generate one or more simulations based on log data captu...