ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,506, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Articulated object determination" was invented by Adrian Michael Costantino (Foster City, Calif.), Subhasis Das (San Mateo, Calif.) and Francesco Papi (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle computing system may implement techniques to determine whether two objects in an environment are related as an articulated object. The techniques may include applying heuristics and algorithms to object representations (e.g., bounding boxes) to determine whether two objects are related as a single object with two portions that articulate relative to each o...