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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2023
Applicant:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Francesco Papi, Oakland, CA (US);

Cong Ding, San Jose, CA (US);

Mahsa Ghafarianzadeh, San Francisco, CA (US);

Willem Prins, San Francisco, CA (US);

Nicholas George Dilip Roy, Needham, MA (US);

Soham Bhave, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

John Welling Ware, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0027 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4044 (2020.02); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02);
Abstract

A machine-learned architecture may use sensor data, data derived from the sensor data, and/or to determine a grid indicating objects that are occluded to one or more sensors of a vehicle and velocities associated therewith. This grid may be used to generate a candidate object detection associated with an occluded object and/or an object track associated with the occluded object. The candidate object detection and/or object track may be used to determine a predicted trajectory of the occluded object and, in cases where the occluded object is affirmed by a perception component of the vehicle to be a true positive, may be used to initialize a track associated with the newly disoccluded object.


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