ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,193, issued on May 6, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Trajectory determination based on heuristic grid data" was invented by 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 a parking trajectory for a vehicle are discussed herein. A parking management component may determine or receive a three-dimensional grid ("grid"), discretized based at least in part on a heading offset, a lateral offset, and/or a longitudinal offset between a first and second pose. A cell of the grid may include a cost associated indicating a minimum difference to t...