US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 8 for "Data prioritization for autonomous vehicle communication based on object contact metrics" (California, Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,595, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Data prioritization for autonomous vehicle communication based on object contact metrics" was invented by Seyed Parsa Beheshti (Belmont, Calif.), Muhammad Umar Choudry (Seattle), Ravi Gogna (San Jose, Calif.), Meredith James Goldman (Redwood City, Calif.), Paul Orecchio (Denver) and Amir Takhmar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises (i) obtaining, by a first sensor of a plurality of sensors, first sensor data associated with one or objects in an environment in which one or more vehicles are located, (ii) obtaining, by a second...