ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,428, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Action reference generation pipeline" was invented by Liam Gallagher (San Francisco) and Matthew Van Heukelom (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for accurately predicting and avoiding collisions with objects detected in an environment of a vehicle are discussed herein. A vehicle computing device can implement a model to generate action references usable in a tree search to control the vehicle. For example, the model may represent one or more trajectory generators that modify a baseline trajectory in different ways to output a set of actions tr...