US Patent Issued to Zoox on June 16 for "Dynamic wheel configuration adjustment based on environmental conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,707, issued on June 16, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Dynamic wheel configuration adjustment based on environmental conditions" was invented by Johannes Edren (Belmont, Calif.), Ahditya Melkote (Foster City, Calif.) and Joseph Whinnery (Soquel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for determining adverse traction conditions currently and/or likely to be being experienced by a vehicle and mitigating such conditions are described. Using sensor data, a vehicle computing device may determine an adverse traction conditions and various attributes of the condition. The vehicle computing device may...