US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 30 for "Detecting and responding to malfunctioning traffic lights for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,117, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting and responding to malfunctioning traffic lights for autonomous vehicles" was invented by David Silver (San Carlos, Calif.), Carl Kershaw (San Francisco), Jonathan Hsiao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Edward Hsiao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and responding to malfunctioning traffic signals for a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, information identifying a detected state of a traffic signal for an intersection. An anomaly for the traffic signal may be detected based on ...