US Patent Issued to Zoox on Jan. 28 for "Verifying reliability of data used for autonomous driving" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,869, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Verifying reliability of data used for autonomous driving" was invented by Yi Xu (Pasadena, Calif.), Noureldin Ehab Hendy (West Lafayette, Ind.), Cooper Stokes Sloan (San Francisco), Sarah Tariq (Palo Alto, Calif.), Feng Tian (Foster City, Calif.) and Chuang Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for verifying a reliability of map data are discussed herein. In some examples, map data can be used by a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle, to traverse an environment. Sensor data (e.g., image data, lidar data, etc.) can be received fro...