US Patent Issued to Zoox on June 2 for "Fusion of radar and infrared data for object detection and tracking" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,980, issued on June 2, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Fusion of radar and infrared data for object detection and tracking" was invented by Philippe Martin Burlina (Rockville, Md.), Patrick Blaes (Redwood City, Calif.), Yifan Zuo (Foster City, Calif.) and Subhasis Das (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle computing systems may receive and fuse long-wave infrared data with radar data to detect and track objects in low-visibility driving environments. In some examples, radar data including position and velocity data may be projected over infrared image data to detect, classify, and track infrared-em...