US Patent Issued to Zoox on Jan. 13 for "Sensor blooming detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,774, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Sensor blooming detection" was invented by Nehemia Girma Terefe (Foster City, Calif.), Noor Abdelmaksoud (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kai Zhou (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques comprise receiving sensor data comprising first sensor data collected by a first lidar sensor and a second sensor data collected by a second lidar sensor of a vehicle. An object is detected based at least in part on the first sensor data and the second sensor data. A difference between the first sensor data associated with the object and the second sensor data ...