US Patent Issued to Zoox on Dec. 9 for "Autonomous vehicle trajectory generation and optimization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,910, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle trajectory generation and optimization" was invented by Joseph Funke (Redwood City, Calif.), Steven Cheng Qian (San Francisco), Kazuhide Okamoto (Mountain View, Calif.), Jacob Patrick Thalman (San Francisco) and Sriram Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed for generating and optimizing trajectories for controlling autonomous vehicles in performing on-route and off-route actions within a driving environment. A planning component of an autonomous vehicle can receive or generate time-discretized (or te...