Using patent analytics to see why Amazon bought Zoox
- Amazon’s competitive impact on autonomous vehicles nearly tripled as a result of the acquisition.
- Zoox’s patent portfolio is particularly strong in the areas of driving assistance, signaling and cruise control, three areas Amazon needed to strengthen along with reinforcement-based machine learning techniques to support autonomous vehicles.
- Autonomous ride-hailing services and logistics are two markets Amazon looks to expand into quickly with Zoox’s expertise.
- Zoox has 154 patent families, with many of them reflecting the startups’ expertise with reinforcement machine learning-based development.