US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 12 for "Methods and systems for using interference to detect sensor impairment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,032, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for using interference to detect sensor impairment" was invented by Adam Brown (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gary Clayton (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to methods and systems for using interference to detect sensor impairment. Radar or another type of sensor on a vehicle may receive radio-frequency (RF) signals propagating in the environment. These RF signals may originate from an external source and a computing device can be used to determine a distance and an angle to the source in order to ide...