US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 15 for "Validation of a road network map based on location bounded rules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,934, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Validation of a road network map based on location bounded rules" was invented by Aaron Guerrero (San Francisco), Taylor Andrew Arnicar (San Jose, Calif.), Byungil Jeong (San Ramon, Calif.) and Era Yuan Yuan Ming (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided where requests to modify or validate a road network map are received, and a determination is made as to whether a requested modification, or the road network map, is invalid based on a location at which the modification is desired to be made, and rules associated with a co...