US Patent Issued to Zoox on Dec. 2 for "Collision avoidance and mitigation in autonomous vehicles using predicted trajectories" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,882, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Collision avoidance and mitigation in autonomous vehicles using predicted trajectories" was invented by Chuang Wang (Woodside, Calif.), Cooper Stokes Sloan (San Francisco), Noureldin Ehab Hendy (Foster City, Calif.), William Harland Montgomery IV (Burlingame, Calif.) and Yi Xu (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle safety system of an autonomous vehicle may determine predicted velocity vectors for a potential collision, and use the velocity vectors to determine a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle to traverse the environment. The vehicle sa...