US Patent Issued to Zoox on March 24 for "Sensor fusion for detecting false-positive observations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,015, issued on March 24, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Sensor fusion for detecting false-positive observations" was invented by Arvind Srivastav (San Francisco) and Jifei Qian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying false-positive sensor observations include using sensor observations from different sensor modalities. The techniques may include receiving first sensor data (e.g., radar data) and second sensor data (e.g., lidar data) generated by different types of sensors of a vehicle that is operating in an environment. The techniques may also include determining an absence of a...