ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,734, issued on March 11, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Vehicle constraint generation" was invented by Timothy Henry Jung (Seattle), Janakan Chandrakumar (San Carlos, Calif.), Collin MacGregor (Redwood City, Calif.), Joshua Paul Munic (San Mateo, Calif.), Matthew Ambrose Romlewski (San Mateo, Calif.), Aaron Rosekind (San Jose, Calif.), Sandra Ruiz (Newark, Calif.), Nehemia Girma Terefe (Foster City, Calif.), Nathaniel John Villaume (Foster City, Calif.), Darrin Sammons Willis (San Francisco) and He Yi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for detecting and managing f...