US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 16 for "Open vehicle doors prediction using a neural network model" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,074, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Open vehicle doors prediction using a neural network model" was invented by Andre Liang Cornman (San Francisco), David Lee (San Carlos, Calif.), Yang Song (San Jose, Calif.), Zijian Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edward Stephen Walker Jr. (San Francisco), Yuanfang Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Zhengli Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hsu-kuang Chiu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for open vehicle doors prediction using a neural network model. One of the met...