ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,394, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Remote assistance for vehicles" was invented by Joseph Funke (Redwood City, Calif.), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.), Caili Li (Castro Valley, Calif.), Steven Cheng Qian (San Francisco), Jacob Patrick Thalman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Ruikun Yu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for requesting remote assistance from a vehicle are discussed. The techniques include receiving, from a remote computing device, coordinates of a footprint in which the vehicle is capable of stopping. The techniques further include receiving, from the remote comput...