ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,756, issued on March 4, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"System and method for generating multi-resolution voxel spaces" was invented by Hirotatsu Armstrong (Las Vegas), Patrick Blaes (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.) and Jeffrey Eric Tolliver (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for representing a scene or map based on statistical data of captured environmental data are discussed herein. In some cases, the data (such as covariance data, mean data, or the like) may be stored as a multi-resolution voxel space that includes a plurality of semantic layers. In some ...