ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,530, issued on May 20, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Autonomous vehicle control based on a probability of collision" was invented by Joseph Lorenzetti (Foster City, Calif.), Anjali Lakshmi Pemmaraju (San Francisco) and Shahriar Sefati (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided techniques including a system, method, and computer-readable medium for autonomous vehicle control based on a probability of collision. The method may include the steps of: receiving a vehicle trajectory associated with a vehicle and an object trajectory associated with an object, determining a vehicle probability distr...