US Patent Issued to Zoox on Aug. 25 for "Limiting vehicular operation with a faulted component" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,475, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Limiting vehicular operation with a faulted component" was invented by Udayan Pushparaj Karmarkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthew Daniel Lopez (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Collin MacGregor (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ganapathy Sankararaman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling operation of a vehicle in one or more different operational states after detecting a fault associated with a component of the vehicle are described herein. A vehicle computing system can monitor components of the vehicle and identify a fault associated with a com...