US Patent Issued to Zoox on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for disengaging or engaging autonomy remotely" (Virginia, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,011, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for disengaging or engaging autonomy remotely" was invented by Yongguang Zhu (Yorktown, Va.), Collin MacGregor (Redwood City, Calif.), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.), Meredith James Goldman (Redwood City, Calif.) and Muhammad Umar Choudry (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for disengaging or engaging autonomy remotely are provided. The autonomous vehicle may receive a request from a remote computing system associated with a remote operator. The request may require the autonomous vehicle to disengage, engage, or re-engag...