US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 29 for "Passenger notification based on vehicle perception data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,952, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Passenger notification based on vehicle perception data" was invented by Casey Evan Kurtyka (San Francisco) and Colin Lee Madere (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for notifying candidate passengers of potential hazards are discussed herein. A vehicle may navigate to a location within an environment to pick up a passenger for transportation. Upon arriving at the pickup location, the vehicle may determine whether the passenger is located at the pickup location. Based on the passenger not being located at the pickup location, the vehic...