ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,980, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object relevance filtering" was invented by Marin Kobilarov (Baltimore) and Linjun Zhang (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for whether to associate predicted trajectories of objects detected in an environment with candidate vehicle trajectories are described. A vehicle traversing an environment may have several candidate actions that may be used to control the vehicle. Predicted object trajectories may be excluded from further processing based on a relevancy score determination. Various factors may be evaluated to determ...