ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,494, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Onboard cluster tracking system" was invented by Mingcheng Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christian Lauterbach (Campbell, Calif.), Ian Mahon (Berkeley, Calif.) and Sachithra Hemachandra (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to tracking objects in an environment around an autonomous vehicle. A computing system of the autonomous vehicle determines accurate motion characteristics of objects detected in its environment despite various sensor measurement limitations. By correcting motion distortion for fast moving objects and accountin...