US Patent Issued to Zoox on May 6 for "Using maps comprising covariances in multi-resolution voxels" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,541, issued on May 6, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Using maps comprising covariances in multi-resolution voxels" was invented by Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.), Patrick Blaes (San Dimas, Calif.), Derek Adams (Pasadena, Calif.) and Brice Rebsamen (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for representing a scene or map based on statistical data of captured environmental data are discussed herein. In some cases, the data (such as covariance data, mean data, or the like) may be stored as a multi-resolution voxel space that includes a plurality of semantic layers. In some instances...