US Patent Issued to Zoox on Aug. 25 for "Collision avoidance perception system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,344, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Collision avoidance perception system" was invented by James William Vaisey Philbin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicholas George Charchut (Santa Monica, Calif.), Noureldin Ehab Hendy (San Mateo, Calif.), Cooper Stokes Sloan (San Francisco) and Chuang Wang (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision avoidance system may validate, reject, or replace a trajectory generated to control a vehicle. The collision avoidance system may comprise a secondary perception component that may receive sensor data, receive and/or determine a corridor associated with oper...