ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,031, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Tracker trajectory validation" was invented by Taylor Scott Clawson (Foster City, Calif.) and Brian Michael Filarsky (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collision avoidance and error determination for a component of an autonomous vehicle comprising receiving a first trajectory, such as to return a vehicle to an intended trajectory, that a vehicle is predicted to follow, based on an offset between the vehicle and a second trajectory associated with the vehicle, such as a reference trajectory. The first trajectory predicts a first movement characteristi...