ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,884, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object detection in automotive applications" was invented by Connor Joseph Kafka (San Francisco) and Da Liu (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises an object detection system, comprising: (A) a transmitter, (B) a receiver affixed, and (C) at least one processor configured to: (i) based on a characteristic of the environment in which the vehicle is currently located, determine an operating parameter of at least one of the transmitter and the receiver, (ii) cause the transmitter to output electromagnetic radiation with an intensity as...