ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,126, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Lateral safety area" was invented by Jacob Daniel Boydston (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a safety area for a vehicle are discussed herein. In some cases, a first safety area can be based on a vehicle travelling through an environment and a second safety area can be based on a steering control or a velocity of the vehicle. A width of the safety areas can be updated based on a position of a bounding box associated with the vehicle. The position can be based on the vehicle traversing along a trajectory. Sensor dat...