ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,740, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining object orientation based on parameter modes" was invented by Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.), John Bryan Carter (Upton, Mass.), Shuangting Liu (Foster City, Calif.), Francesco Papi (Oakland, Calif.), Nicholas George Dilip Roy (Needham, Mass.) and Zachary Sun (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for determining more accurate object parameter values, such as orientation values (e.g., yaw, location, position, etc.), for objects detected in an environment are disclosed. A vehicle computing system may receive senso...