ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,191, issued on May 6, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Parking location filter" was invented by Joseph Funke (Redwood City, Calif.), Steven Cheng Qian (San Francisco) and Zheyuan Xie (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining parking spaces and/or parking trajectories for a vehicle based on multistage filtering are discussed herein. In some examples, a vehicle may navigate to a destination within an environment. The vehicle may receive a set of parking locations and perform filtering operations to determine a subset of the parking locations. For example, the vehicle may use a list ...