US Patent Issued to Zoox on Oct. 20 for "Driving simulation agent right-of-way and headlock negotiation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,175, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Driving simulation agent right-of-way and headlock negotiation" was invented by Priam Mukundan (Milpitas, Calif.), Nathaniel Nyberg (Seattle), Maxwell Chandler Robinson (Burlingame, Calif.) and Tod Cameron Semple (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for encoding driving scenarios based on the characterizations of interactions between pairs or groups of agents within the driving scenarios. Additional techniques are described herein for executing driving simulations and using machine-learned (ML) classifier models to tr...