US Patent Issued to Zoox on Jan. 20 for "Mitigation of safety risks for loss of vehicle safety components" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,480, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Mitigation of safety risks for loss of vehicle safety components" was invented by Seyed Parsa Beheshti (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for mitigating risks of a vehicle when turn signal(s) become inoperable are described herein. A vehicle may have turn signal indicators configured to indicate a navigational intent of the vehicle to the proximate object(s). In some examples, turn signal indicators may become inoperable due to a failure of the turn signal indicator and/or a failure of the turn signal controller. Based on determining tha...