US Patent Issued to Zoox on Aug. 11 for "Secure software communication with autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,320, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Secure software communication with autonomous vehicles" was invented by Collin MacGregor (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for engaging and disengaging a vehicle from an autonomous operation mode are described. The techniques include receiving a request to engage or disengage the autonomous mode at a teleoperations system. The request is validated at the teleoperations system using a first set of conditions describing trust in the request and validity of the request. The request is then sent, if va...