US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 14 for "Self-supervised learning model for road feature detection in driving environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,659, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Self-supervised learning model for road feature detection in driving environments" was invented by Carl Raymond Chatfield (San Mateo, Calif.), Zhengmao Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tianyu Zhao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for self-supervised training of machine-learned models for detecting road features based on images of a driving environment. The model may be implemented as a neural network having two output heads: a first semantic segmentation head trained to output a likelihood of a particular road feature at vari...