ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,129, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Capturing and simulating radar data for autonomous driving systems" was invented by Anas Lasram (South San Francisco, Calif.), James Graham Dolan (Sarasota, Fla.) and Ximing Li (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation system may generate radar data for synthetic simulations of autonomous vehicles, by using a data store of object radar data and attributes determined from sensor data captured in real-world physical environments. The radar data store may include radar point clouds representing real-world objects and associated object attribut...