US Patent Issued to Zoox on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for construction zone detection" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,066, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for construction zone detection" was invented by Derek Xiang Ma (San Carlos, Calif.), William Harland Montgomery IV (Burlingame, Calif.), Adam Edward Pollack (Ramsey, N.J.), Hang Ren (San Mateo, Calif.) and Oytun Ulutan (Buena Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting and labeling construction zones in an environment are disclosed. Two-dimensional images may be evaluated to identify pixels that may be associated with a construction zone and labeled accordingly. Labels for corresponding pixels in a separate image or n...