US Patent Issued to Zoox on Nov. 3 for "Trajectory selection in response to triggering events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,256, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Trajectory selection in response to triggering events" was invented by Vincent Andreas Laurense (Foster City, Calif.), Glenn Xavier Liem (San Francisco), Joseph Funke (Redwood City, Calif.), Varun Agrawal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jiayin Xia (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for optimal trajectory generation for a vehicle are described herein. In some cases, the techniques described herein include determining a first primary trajectory by a first component (e.g., a planner component) of the vehicle, determining a triggering event as...