US Patent Issued to Zoox on March 25 for "System for generating scene context data using a reference graph" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,040, issued on March 25, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"System for generating scene context data using a reference graph" was invented by Gowtham Garimella (Hayward, Calif.), Gary Linscott (Seattle) and Ethan Miller Pronovost (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving operational decisions of an autonomous vehicle are discussed herein. In some cases, a system may generate reference graphs associated with a route of the autonomous vehicle. Such reference graphs can comprise precomputed feature vectors based on grid regions and/or lane segments. The feature vectors are usable to de...