ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,343, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Executable component interface and controller" was invented by Jacob Lee Askeland (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Martin Cahoon (Mountain View, Calif.) and Christopher Yeates Brown (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may control input to, output from, and execution of a component of a data-processing pipeline via an interface. The interface facilitates replacing the component with a different and/or updated component and/or changing a type of controller that controls the component via the interface. For example, the different types of cont...