US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Systems and methods for interfacing with a user" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,148, issued on June 23.

"Systems and methods for interfacing with a user" was invented by Chip J. Alexander (Belmont, Calif.) and Miao Sun (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods communicate an intent of an autonomous vehicle externally. In one implementation, scan data of a field around a travel path of an autonomous vehicle is obtained. The scan data is captured using at least one sensor. An object in the field around the travel path is determined from the scan data. The object is determined to be mutable or immutable. A navigation condition associated with the object is determined based on whether...