US Patent Issued to Zoox on Oct. 14 for "Generating composite data using long and short time-of-flight exposures" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,355, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Generating composite data using long and short time-of-flight exposures" was invented by Yongzhe Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Arvind Shivu Govinday (Fairfax, Va.), Samuel Russell Holladay (San Francisco), Robert Nicholas Moor (San Mateo, Calif.), Jonathan Solheim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shaminda Subasingha (San Ramon, Calif.) and Wuyang Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects around ...