ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,135, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Controlling agent movement in driving simulations based on vehicle log data" was invented by Tod Cameron Semple (Woodside, Calif.) and Maxwell Chandler Robinson (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for analyzing vehicle log data and determining initial movement times for stationary objects represented in the log data. Various techniques may include receiving log data including a sequence of bounding shapes representing an object detected in a physical environment, and analyzing the sequence of bounding shapes to dis...