US Patent Issued to Zoox on April 8 for "Remote vehicle guidance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,509, issued on April 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Remote vehicle guidance" was invented by Matthew Nathaniel Dickerson (San Francisco), Oliver Fielding Douglas (San Francisco), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.) and Collin MacGregor (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing remote guidance to a vehicle operating in an environment, by an operator located in the environment, are described herein. The operator can include a safety observer configured to observe one or more vehicles operating in the environment and may identify a scenario that requires a modification to a vehicle ope...