US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 2 for "Systems, methods, and apparatus for using remote assistance to classify objects in an environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,592, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for using remote assistance to classify objects in an environment" was invented by Collin Winter (San Francisco) and Vishay Nihalani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to techniques for enabling one or more systems of a vehicle (e.g., an autonomous vehicle) to request remote assistance to help the vehicle navigate in an environment. A computing device may be configured to receive a request for assistance from a vehicle to classify an object and to initiate display of a graphical user interfac...