US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 14 for "Electronic control unit clock" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,403, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Electronic control unit clock" was invented by Juchan Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Aman Sehgal (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating and/or updating a timekeeping mechanism for an ECU are described herein. Monotonic and/or global time sources may be used to generate and/or update a real time clock used by component(s) of an autonomous vehicle. In some examples, a clock manager may receive a monotonic time value from a monotonic clock and a global time value from a global clock. The clock manager may use the monotonic time value ...