US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 7 for "System for sparsely representing and storing geographic and map data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,068, issued on July 7, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"System for sparsely representing and storing geographic and map data" was invented by Derek Adams (Pasadena, Calif.), Michael Carsten Bosse (Templeton, Calif.), Elena Stephanie Stumm (Berkeley, Calif.) and Veeresh Taranalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques associated with generating and maintaining sparse geographic and map data. In some cases, the system may maintain a factor graph comprising a plurality of nodes. In some cases, the nodes may comprise pose data and sensor data associated with an autonomous vehicle at the geographic pos...