US Patent Issued to Zoox on April 29 for "Techniques for authorizing vehicle control systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,640, issued on April 29, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Techniques for authorizing vehicle control systems" was invented by Hristo Iankov Bojinov (Palo Alto, Calif.), Bryce Douglas Jones Carter (San Mateo, Calif.), Jimmy Ming Chiang (San Jose, Calif.), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.) and Max Ellis Wolotsky (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and methods for securing vehicle systems. For instance, an authorization system may store data representing frequencies at which destination locations are associated pick-up locations for a fleet of autonomous vehicles. The authorization system may then ...