US Patent Issued to Zoox on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle" (California, Utah, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,846, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Taylor Scott Clawson (Hyde Park, Utah), Joseph Thomas Gannon (Pittsburgh) and Giacomo Zavolta Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for selecting a trajectory to traverse comprises receiving a primary trajectory, determining, based at least in part on the primary trajectory, a primary area traversed by the sensor platform in accordance with the primary trajectory and a secondary area traversed by the sensor platform in accordance with a contingent traje...