US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 29 for "Collision filtering based on segmentation data and object tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,947, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Collision filtering based on segmentation data and object tracking" was invented by Xiang Gao (Mountain View, Calif.), Jie Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Li Yon Tan (Foster City, Calif.), Haoran Yu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Yihang Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for filtering candidate collisions with objects in an environment are discussed herein. A vehicle may receive sensor data representative of the environment. The vehicle can evaluate such sensor data and generate instance segmentation maps that represent the environment at a fut...