US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 30 for "Camera arrangements for vehicular object detection and avoidance" (California, Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,914, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Camera arrangements for vehicular object detection and avoidance" was invented by Lucian Ion (Redwood City, Calif.), Shashank Sharma (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeremy Dittmer (Fairfax Station, Va.) and Nirav Dharia (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to camera arrangements for vehicular object detection and avoidance. An example system includes a vehicle and at least one camera of a first camera type attached to the vehicle. The system also includes a plurality of cameras of a second camera type attached to the vehicle. Furthe...