ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,777, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Vehicle pose correction by inter-vehicle communication" was invented by Siu Fai Chow (San Jose, Calif.), Till Kroeger (Chicago) and Mengping Zhu (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining location data usable to control a vehicle in an environment are discussed herein. A computing device can determine a position and/or pose of an autonomous vehicle based on an inter-vehicle communication with another autonomous vehicle from a fleet of autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicle can receive pose information and drive time data a...