US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 9 for "Object detection using similarity determinations for sensor observations" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,852, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Object detection using similarity determinations for sensor observations" was invented by Francesco Papi (Oakland, Calif.), Qian Song (San Mateo, Calif.), John Bryan Carter (Upton, Mass.), Shuangting Liu (Foster City, Calif.), Zachary Sun (San Francisco), Cong Ding (San Jose, Calif.) and Murat Gevrekci (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing object detection in a vehicle environment using sensor data captured by one or more sensors of the vehicle are described herein. In some cases, an object in a vehicle environment can...