ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,770, issued on April 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Risk mitigation in speed planning" was invented by Jared Stephen Russell (San Francisco) and Tobias Kunz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first driving solution for a vehicle along a portion of a route is determined based on an agent detected in the vehicle's environment following a first trajectory of a plurality of possible trajectories. A switching time is determined for the vehicle to deviate from the first driving solution for a situation in which the agent is following a second trajectory of the plurality of possible trajectories. The fir...