US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 29 for "Determining relevant objects and relevant object trajectories" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,946, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Determining relevant objects and relevant object trajectories" was invented by Marin Kobilarov (Baltimore) and Linjun Zhang (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying relevant objects and/or trajectories are described herein. A vehicle may identify laterally adjacent lane reference(s) and determine whether it is kinematically feasible for the vehicle to navigate to the lane reference(s). If the vehicle is unable to navigate to the lane reference, the vehicle may exclude the objects located in the associated driving lane fro...