ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,863, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Vector-based object representation for vehicle planning" was invented by Ethan Miller Pronovost (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for vector-based representation of objects from sensor data of an autonomous vehicle are described herein. The vector-based representations are generated by identifying intersections of vectors originating at a center of an object and extending radially outward with a perimeter of the object based on sensor data. The vector-based representation may be generated using the intersection points to generate ...