US Patent Issued to Zoox on March 18 for "Determining vehicle position using sideslip vector" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,200, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining vehicle position using sideslip vector" was invented by Joseph Funke (Redwood City, Calif.), Liam Gallagher (San Francisco), Marin Kobilarov (Baltimore), Vincent Andreas Laurense (Foster City, Calif.), Mark Jonathon McClelland (San Francisco), Sriram Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.), Kazuhide Okamoto (Mountain View, Calif.), Jack Riley (San Francisco), Jeremy Schwartz (Redwood City, Calif.), Jacob Patrick Thalman (San Francisco), Olivier Amaury Toupet (Escondido, Calif.) and David Evan Zlotnik (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems...