US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 22 for "Identifying the position of a horn honk or other acoustical information using multiple autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,803, issued on April 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Identifying the position of a horn honk or other acoustical information using multiple autonomous vehicles" was invented by Nicholas Armstrong-Crews (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to determining a source of a horn honk or other noise in an environment around one or more self-driving vehicles. Aspects of the technology leverage real-time information from a group of self-driving vehicles regarding received acoustical information. The location and pose of each self-driving vehicle in the group, along with the precise...