US Patent Issued to Zoox on April 21 for "Validating traffic light signals through supportive vote" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,954, issued on April 21, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Validating traffic light signals through supportive vote" was invented by Amir Ghaderi (San Jose, Calif.), Shuangyu Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Derek Xiang Ma (San Carlos, Calif.) and Oytun Ulutan (Buena Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for determining an active traffic light signal. The techniques involve, determining active signals for first and second traffic light heads of a group of traffic light heads, wherein members of the group of traffic light heads share an active signal at a point in time. A first vote is all...