ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,569, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Intelligent vehicle pull over" was invented by Collin MacGregor (Redwood City, Calif.), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.), Udayan Pushparaj Karmarkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Satya Rama Aditya Pinapala (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Aaron Rosekind (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for intelligent vehicle pull over in response to detecting abnormal conditions. The techniques may include determining a presence of a condition necessitating that a vehicle cease from operating on a road surface and determining a constraint associated with the vehicle ce...