ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,239, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Autonomous vehicle sound determination by a model" was invented by Seyed Parsa Beheshti (Belmont, Calif.), William Randolph Geddings Jr. (San Francisco), Anoop Jatavallabha Vijayakumar (Fremont, Calif.) and Shaminda Subasingha (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining audio data for output by an autonomous vehicle are discussed herein. A system can determine audio data representing a frequency and a sound level for different object types in an environment. The audio data can be specific for a human or animal, and can be adjust...