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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2020
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Derek Adams, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Daniel Glenn Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher William Labadie, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan McMichael, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Miller, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Thomas Mitros, San Carlos, CA (US);
Anubhav Thakur, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph Patrick Warga, San Francisco, CA (US);
Austin In-Jei Yi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. The sensor pod system may include a cleaning system to clean sensing surfaces of sensor pods during operation. The sensor pod system may include sensors of different types and modalities. Sensor pods of the sensor pod system may be modularly installed on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle and collect and provide data of the environment during operation of the vehicle.