US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 8 for "Storing map data based on metadata" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,884, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Storing map data based on metadata" was invented by Jean-Luc Pierre Chamaa (San Carlos, Calif.), Christopher Patton (Daly City, Calif.) and Elena Stephanie Stumm (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed for generating, maintaining, and accessing maps to be used for vehicle localization and navigation. A map of a region may include map data representing discrete tiles of the region, and be associated with a map manifest listing pointers to content of the map. In some cases, the map manifest may have a recursive structure which re...