US Patent Issued to Zoox on June 9 for "Driving surface cost landscape" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,487, issued on June 9, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Driving surface cost landscape" was invented by Akash Arora (San Mateo, Calif.), Andrew Baker (North Hollywood, Calif.), Timothy Caldwell (Boulder, Colo.), Eunsuk Chong (Castro Valley, Calif.), Rasmus Fonseca (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffrey Loris Irion (Castro Valley, Calif.), Dhanushka Nirmevan Kularatne (Castro Valley, Calif.), Yangwei Liu (Newark, Calif.), Joseph Lorenzetti (Foster City, Calif.), Mark Jonathon McClelland (San Francisco), Jack Riley (San Francisco) and Rick Zhang (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Te...