ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,859, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Object detection using multispectral data" was invented by Philippe Martin Burlina (Rockville, Md.), Subhasis Das (San Mateo, Calif.) and Xinyu Xu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a presence of an object, especially an object such as animal or debris, in a path of a vehicle, are discussed herein. For example, sensors of various modalities, which may include multispectral sensors, may capture data representing an environment the vehicle is traversing. In examples, one or more trained machine learned (ML) models, operat...