ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,392, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Simulation buildout with dynamic time intervals" was invented by Weifu Wang (San Mateo, Calif.).

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 determine a trajectory for a vehicle based on vehicle state data over a simulation period including a plurality of intervals. The vehicle computing device may determine the trajectory by determining control polic(ies) for at least a part of the simulation based on a control pol...