US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 15 for "Trajectory prediction on top-down scenes and associated model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,165, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Trajectory prediction on top-down scenes and associated model" was invented by Xi Joey Hong (Campbell, Calif.), Benjamin John Sapp (San Francisco), James William Vaisey Philbin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kai Zhenyu Wang (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed for determining prediction probabilities of an object based on a top-down representation of an environment. Data representing objects in an environment can be captured. Aspects of the environment can be represented as map data. A multi-channel image representing a top-do...