ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,118, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Torque distribution-based deceleration" was invented by Travis Anthony Llado (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Joshua Caleb Wade (Redwood City, Calif.) and Sage Michael Wolfe (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for determining deceleration controls to use in controlling a vehicle are described. A deceleration distribution system may receive a deceleration input from a vehicle control system or component and determine a rate of change of torque associated with adjusting current vehicle to torque to a torque associated with the deceleratio...