US Patent Issued to Zoox on June 30 for "Generating local graph data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,340, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Generating local graph data" was invented by Andrew Baker (North Hollywood, Calif.), Rasmus Fonseca (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.), Joona Markus Petteri Kiiski (Cupertino, Calif.), Swapnil Vikas Mankar (Union City, Calif.) and Mark Jonathon McClelland (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a local graph are described herein. A vehicle may receive a destination and generate a preferred path thereto. The vehicle may generate a local graph based on the preferred path which may define a subregion of the envir...