ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,127, issued on June 23, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Lane group modification and generation" was invented by Colby Glacier Chang (San Francisco), Rasmus Fonseca (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Genie Kim (San Francisco) and Glen Thomas Neville (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for changing driving lanes due to construction zones are described herein. A vehicle may receive sensor data and determine, based on the sensor data, that the vehicle is approaching a construction zone. The vehicle may determine that the construction zone is blocking the driving lane occupied by the vehicle. In this case, th...