US Patent Issued to Zoox on Dec. 23 for "Emergency vehicle detection and response" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,739, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Emergency vehicle detection and response" was invented by Sarah Tariq (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.), Marc Wimmershoff (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting and responding to an emergency vehicle are discussed. A vehicle computing system may determine that an emergency vehicle based on sensor data, such as audio and visual data. In some examples, the vehicle computing system may determine aggregate actions of objects (e.g., other vehicles yielding) pr...