US Patent Issued to Zoox on April 1 for "Modifying map elements associated with map data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,938, issued on April 1, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Modifying map elements associated with map data" was invented by Derek Adams (Santa Clara, Calif.), Patrick Blaes (San Dimas, Calif.), Aleksandrs Ecins (San Mateo, Calif.), Jesse Sol Levinson (Redwood City, Calif.) and Daniel Miller (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed for modifying map elements associated with map data. Map data can include three-dimensional data (e.g., LIDAR data) representing an environment, while map elements can be associated with the map data to identify locations and semantic information associated wi...