US Patent Issued to Zoox on Jan. 27 for "Tree search integrated dynamic vehicle controller profile for vehicle path planning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,105, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Tree search integrated dynamic vehicle controller profile for vehicle path planning" was invented by David Evan Zlotnik (Menlo Park, Calif.), Vincent Andreas Laurense (Foster City, Calif.), Olivier Amaury Toupet (Escondido, Calif.) and Joseph Funke (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tree search may comprise a cost function that may be used to determine, from multiple controller profiles, a controller profile to implement a transition between vehicle actions. A controller profile may limit the controls output by a controller sufficient to tra...