US Patent Issued to Zoox on April 14 for "Determining point locations based on road segment approximations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,367, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining point locations based on road segment approximations" was invented by Lakshay Garg (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Joona Markus Petteri Kiiski (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for transforming an object location from a first frame of reference to a route-relative frame of reference. A road management component may receive sensor data captured from sensor devices of a vehicle. The road management component may analyze the sensor data to determine a location of an object within the environment. The road management component may u...