ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,426, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Positional gaps for driver controllability" was invented by Jennifer Iglesias (San Francisco), Diomidis Katzourakis (Mountain View, Calif.), Kerrie Wu (Fremont, Calif.) and Bruce Lin (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology involves determining a minimum lateral gap distance between a vehicle configured for autonomous driving and one or more other objects in the vehicle's environment. The minimum lateral gap is used when determining whether to have a driver take over control of certain driving operations. This provides a measure of...