ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,819, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Autonomous driving object detection and avoidance" was invented by Joseph Funke (Redwood City, Calif.), Steven Cheng Qian (San Francisco), Kazuhide Okamoto (Mountain View, Calif.), Jacob Patrick Thalman (San Francisco), Sriram Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.) and Yunpeng Pan (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for autonomous vehicles to determine driving paths and associated trajectories through unstructured or off-route driving environments. When an object is detected within a driving environment, a vehicle may deter...