US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 22 for "Map annotation modification using sparse pose graph node updates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,452, issued on July 22, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Map annotation modification using sparse pose graph node updates" was invented by Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.), Qi Fu (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Elena Stephanie Stumm (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Relocating and/or re-sizing map elements using an updated pose graph without introducing abnormalities to the map data may comprise determining a transformation between a source node of a first pose graph and a target node of a second pose graph and determining a modification to a map element based at least in part on the transformation...