US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 1 for "Navigating around blocking objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,655, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Navigating around blocking objects" was invented by Timothy Caldwell (Mountain View, Calif.), Rasmus Fonseca (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Dhanushka Nirmevan Kularatne (Castro Valley, Calif.), Joseph Lorenzetti (Foster City, Calif.), Latheepan Murugathasan (Dublin, Calif.), Jack Riley (San Francisco), Mazen Alim Siddiqui (San Francisco) and Olivier Amaury Toupet (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling a vehicle to navigate around a blocking object, such as double-parked vehicle ("DPV"), are discussed herein. In some examples, a vehi...