US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 14 for "Lane changing based on a lane change right-of-way cost" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,376, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Lane changing based on a lane change right-of-way cost" was invented by Shahriar Sefati (San Francisco), Colby Glacier Chang (San Francisco), Joona Markus Petteri Kiiski (Cupertino, Calif.), Genie Kim (San Francisco), Dhanushka Nirmevan Kularatne (Castro Valley, Calif.), Joseph Lorenzetti (Foster City, Calif.), Olivier Amaury Toupet (Escondido, Calif.), Marc Wimmershoff (Redwood City, Calif.) and Rick Zhang (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating lane changing candidate trajectories are described herein. A vehicle may generate ...