US Patent Issued to Zoox on March 17 for "Conversion of driving logs to simulations for autonomous vehicle testing and validation" (Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,879, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Conversion of driving logs to simulations for autonomous vehicle testing and validation" was invented by James Graham Dolan (Sarasota, Fla.), Jonathan Michael Edward Hogins (Renton, Wash.) and Marianna Hajar Neubauer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for converting driving logs to driving simulations and for analysis and improvement of said conversion. Log data may be received and an object may be identified. It may be determined that a plurality of models does not contain a sufficient model for representing the object in...