US Patent Issued to Zoox on April 7 for "Reference trajectory validating and collision checking management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,966, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Reference trajectory validating and collision checking management" was invented by Taylor Scott Clawson (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Olivier Amaury Toupet (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining that a reference trajectory is free of intersections or potential collisions with objects are discussed herein. Trajectories being generated by a primary computing device of a vehicle can be utilized to select or determine a reference trajectory to be followed by the vehicle. A secondary computing device of the vehicle can identify a ...