ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,400, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"System and method for determining a target vehicle speed" was invented by Abishek Krishna Akella (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-learned model is trained using human driving data to determine a desired vehicle speed based from a set of driving-environment characteristics. An autonomous-vehicle control system obtains, from cameras, sensors, services, and data sources, a variety of sensor data. The sensor data is used to determine a set of characteristics for the driving-environment for the autonomous vehicle. Using the machine-learned m...