US Patent Issued to Zoox on Feb. 10 for "Interaction prediction based on tracking trajectory" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,296, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Interaction prediction based on tracking trajectory" was invented by Matthew Van Heukelom (San Francisco), Chonhyon Park (San Jose, Calif.), Olivier Amaury Toupet (Escondido, Calif.) and Marin Kobilarov (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for predicting and avoiding collisions with objects detected in an environment of a vehicle are discussed herein. A vehicle computing device can implement a model that receives a set of potential reference trajectories for a vehicle to follow at a future time. The model can determine a tracking trajectory for ...