US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 1 for "Validation of occlusions identified within autonomous vehicle driving environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,865, issued on April 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Validation of occlusions identified within autonomous vehicle driving environments" was invented by Nicholas Armstrong-Crews (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mayank Singal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, by a processing device, radar sensor data from a driving environment of an autonomous vehicle (AV). The radar sensor data corresponds to a field-of-view (FOV) of a radar sensor of the AV. The method further includes identifying, by the processing device from the radar sensor data, a potential occlusion within the driv...