US Patent Issued to Zoox on May 12 for "Route-relative trajectory generation and optimization computations incorporating vehicle sideslip" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,670, issued on May 12, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Route-relative trajectory generation and optimization computations incorporating vehicle sideslip" was invented by Sriram Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.), Liam Gallagher (San Francisco) and Marin Kobilarov (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed for generating and optimizing trajectories for autonomous vehicles using route-relative numerical integration relative to a reference path. A planner component of an autonomous vehicle, for example, can receive or generate a reference path corresponding to a route through an environment. The curren...