ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,409, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Parameter space optimization" was invented by Gerrit Bagschik (Foster City, Calif.) and Andraz Kavalar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for analyzing a parameter space are discussed. Techniques may include receiving policy data for evaluating a vehicle controller. The techniques may further include determining, using a Bayesian optimization and based at least in part on the vehicle controller, parameter sets associated with adverse events. The adverse events may be associated with a violation of the policy data. The techniques may associ...