US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 23 for "High fidelity simulations for autonomous vehicles based on retro-reflection metrology" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,267, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"High fidelity simulations for autonomous vehicles based on retro-reflection metrology" was invented by Arthur Dov Safira (Los Altos, Calif.), Harrison Lee McKenzie Chapter (Santa Clara, Calif.), Colin Andrew Braley (Mountain View, Calif.), Hui Seong Son (Hayward, Calif.), Aleksandar Rumenov Gabrovski (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brian Choung Choi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure address shortcomings of existing technology by enabling autonomous vehicle simulations based on retro-reflection ...