ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,756, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Detecting loops for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Carl Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jialiu Lin (Union City, Calif.), Austin Abrams (Redwood City, Calif.) and Vishay Nihalani (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for determining whether a vehicle is in a loop for an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a route from a current location of the vehicle to a destination for a trip may be generated. Locations traversed by the vehicle during the trip may be tracked. Locations of the route may be compared to the tracked locat...