ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,780, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object determination in an occluded region" was invented by Andrew E. Beller (San Francisco) and Clark Davenport (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle computing device may implement techniques to predict behavior of objects or predicted objects in an environment. The techniques may include using a model to determine whether a potential object will emerge from an occluded region in the environment. The model may be configured to use one or more algorithms, classifiers, and/or computational resources to predict an intersection point and/or an in...