US Patent Issued to Zoox on May 13 for "Multi-attention machine learning for object detection and classification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,997, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Multi-attention machine learning for object detection and classification" was invented by Amir Ghaderi (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Tyler Dowdall (San Francisco) and Derek Xiang Ma (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting, locating, and/or classifying objects based on multiple sensor data inputs received from different sensor modalities. The techniques may include receiving sensor data generated by different sensor modalities of a vehicle, the sensor data including at least first sensor data generated by a first sensor modality...