ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,424, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Collision prediction and avoidance for vehicles" was invented by Jefferson Bradfield Packer (San Francisco), William Anthony Silva (San Francisco) and Zhenqi Huang (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle computing system may implement techniques to control a vehicle to avoid collisions between the vehicle and agents (e.g., dynamic objects) in an environment. The techniques may include generating a representation of a path of the vehicle through an environment as a polygon. The vehicle computing system may compare the two-dimensional path wi...