ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,811, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Inferring state of a traffic directing feature" was invented by Ethan Miller Pronovost (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for inferring a state of a traffic direction feature. The technique comprises using two detection models, wherein one detection model is trained to classify a state of the traffic direction feature based at least in part on imaging data, and wherein the second detection model is trained to classify whether traffic being allowed to travel along a route or not based at least in part on sensor d...