ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,805, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Cross-validating sensors of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Jiajun Zhu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dmitri A. Dolgov (Los Altos, Calif.) and Christopher Paul Urmson (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for cross-validating a second sensor with a first sensor. Cross-validating the second sensor may include obtaining sensor readings from the first sensor and comparing the sensor readings from the first sensor with sensor readings obtained from the second sensor. In particular, the comparison of the sensor readin...