US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 9 for "Component testing based on sensor data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,245, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Component testing based on sensor data" was invented by Sreevatsan Bhaskaran (Redwood City, Calif.) and Shreyas Sudhir Mundhra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting degradation of a component are discussed herein. For example, a computing device can implement a sensor testing component to determine degradation caused by rain, mud, dirt, dust, snow, ice, animal droppings, or other debris on and/or near an outer surface of the lidar sensor. The sensor testing component can apply one or more heuristics and/or machine learned mo...