ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,030, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Flashing traffic light state detection" was invented by Amir Ghaderi (San Jose, Calif.), Shuangyu Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Derek Xiang Ma (San Carlos, Calif.) and Oytun Ulutan (Buena Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for determining whether a traffic light signal is flashing. The technique comprises collating data representing a time-ordered sequence of classifications indicative of a likelihood that a traffic light signal is active at respective times, thereby to create collated data. output data is generated, based on ...