US Patent Issued to Zoox on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle trajectory tree search for off-route driving maneuvers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,239, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Vehicle trajectory tree search for off-route driving maneuvers" was invented by Sriram Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.) and Steven Cheng Qian (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for generating trajectories for controlling motion and/or other behaviors of vehicles in driving environments. In particular, techniques are described herein for using a tree search to determine a trajectory for a vehicle to join a driving route from an initial vehicle state off of the driving route structure. A vehicle computing system may determine ...