US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 28 for "Systems and methods for determining buffer regions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,871, issued on July 28, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining buffer regions" was invented by Taylor Scott Clawson (Castro Valley, Calif.), Leonardo Poubel Orenstein (Foster City, Calif.) and Giacomo Zavolta Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for determining a buffer region for use in controlling a vehicle and avoiding collisions are disclosed herein. A predicted region of travel of a vehicle front bumper may be determined. The position of the front bumper may be determined at points along a center curve of the predicted region of travel and poly...