ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,226, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Generating scouting objectives" was invented by Katharine Patterson (San Francisco), Joshua Herbach (San Francisco), David Silver (San Carlos, Calif.) and David Margines (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating scouting objectives in order to update map information used to control a fleet of vehicles in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a notification from a vehicle of the fleet identifying a feature and a location of the feature may be received. A first bound for a scouting area may be identified ...