US Patent Issued to Zoox on Oct. 14 for "Enabling asynchronous shared communication between passengers in autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,196, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Enabling asynchronous shared communication between passengers in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Riccardo Giraldi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing shared communication are discussed herein. A system can receive, at a vehicle, a request to activate a sharing mode and content data associated with the sharing mode. The system can determine, based at least in part on the content data, a first location of the vehicle. The system can determine, based at least in part on the location, a trajectory of the vehicle. The system c...