ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,970, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Collision avoidance system" was invented by Andrew Lewis King (Los Altos, Calif.), Kristofer Sven Smeds (Mountain View, Calif.), Robert Edward Somers (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jefferson Bradfield Packer (San Francisco) and Marc Wimmershoff (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle may include a primary system for generating data to control the vehicle and a secondary system that validates the data and/or other data to avoid collisions. For example, the primary system may localize the vehicle, detect an object around the vehicle, predict an object tr...