US Patent Issued to Zoox on May 27 for "Object detection using transformer based fusion of multi-modality sensor data" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,727, issued on May 27, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Object detection using transformer based fusion of multi-modality sensor data" was invented by Subhasis Das (San Mateo, Calif.), Ruijie He (Boston) and Xinyu Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for combining data using transformer-based machine learning models. In some examples, a first transformer is used to combine a first dataset with a second dataset. The results are then combined with a third dataset, using a second transformer. Each dataset can represent data from a different sensor modality. The transformers comput...