ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,074, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object detection using merged sensor data clusters" was invented by Kenneth Nathan Brown (San Carlos, Calif.), Vincent Chee-Chin Lee (San Francisco) and David Benjamin Lu (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for object detection based on sensor data are discussed herein. In some cases, the techniques described herein include determining that a first sensor data cluster and a second sensor data cluster are associated with the same object if the two clusters satisfy a set of conditions. For example, a condition may be defined based on a...