US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 14 for "Maintaining distance during vehicle interactions" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,420, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Maintaining distance during vehicle interactions" was invented by Abishek Krishna Akella (Pleasanton, Calif.), Genie Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seyed Mahdi Shamsi (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided methods, systems, and computer-readable media for maintain distance during vehicle interactions. The method comprises determining a first path for a vehicle traversing an environment, determining a second path for an object traversing the environment, determining a region of potential collision between the vehicle and the object, d...