ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,247, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Partial sensor data processing for latency reduction" was invented by Tonghan Gu (Fremont, Calif.) and Scott M. Purdy (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for reducing latency associated with temporal sensor data processing. The techniques may include determining a region of interest within a field of view of a temporal sensor (e.g., rotating lidar sensor, rolling shutter camera, etc.). Based at least in part on determining the region of interest, an azimuth angle associated with a partial scan of the temporal sensor may be determi...