US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 8 for "Sensor fusion for object detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,851, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Sensor fusion for object detection" was invented by Noureldin Ehab Hendy (Foster City, Calif.), Xiang Gao (Mountain View, Calif.), Li Yon Tan (Foster City, Calif.), Eric Carl Daria Wiener (Foster City, Calif.) and Yihang Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for fusing sensor data generated by different sensor modalities to improve object detections and object predictions determined by low-level systems of a vehicle. The techniques may include determining feature maps based on sensor data generated by different sensor modalities associ...