US Patent Issued to Zoox on March 4 for "Determining intention of bicycles and other person-wide vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,497, issued on March 4, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining intention of bicycles and other person-wide vehicles" was invented by Yi-Ting Lin (Foster City, Calif.), Derek Xiang Ma (San Carlos, Calif.), Kenneth Michael Siebert (Redwood City, Calif.) and Oytun Ulutan (Buena Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided methods, systems, and computer-readable media for determining intention of bicycles and other person-wide vehicles. A method comprises: receiving, from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, sensor data relating to an external environment of the autonomous vehicle; detecti...