US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 21 for "Detecting and responding to vehicle sensor data inaccuracies" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,397, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Detecting and responding to vehicle sensor data inaccuracies" was invented by Hristo Iankov Bojinov (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephen Edwin Crozier (Fremont, Calif.) and John Sgueglia (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor data captured by multiple vehicle sensors may be analyzed and compared to detect sensor attacks and/or other sensor anomalies. Vehicle systems described herein may determine overlapping regions in the fields of view of multiple sensors of a vehicle, including sensors of the same or different modalities. The sensor outputs from the...