US Patent Issued to Zoox on Nov. 4 for "Correction of sensor data alignment and environment mapping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,524, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Correction of sensor data alignment and environment mapping" was invented by Chengzhi Winston Liu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Derek Adams (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a map associated with an environment may include collecting sensor data received from one or more vehicles and generating a set of links to align the sensor data. A mesh representation of the environment may be generated from the aligned sensor data. A system may determine a proposed link to add, a proposed link deletion, and/or a proposed link alteration, and receive a mo...