ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,581, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Localized depth disambiguation for time-of-flight data" was invented by Yongzhe Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam (San Francisco), Samuel Russell Holladay (San Francisco), Robert Nicholas Moor (San Mateo, Calif.), Jonathan Solheim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shaminda Subasingha (San Ramon, Calif.) and Wuyang Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects a...