US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 30 for "Remote assistance for autonomous vehicles in predetermined situations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,890, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Remote assistance for autonomous vehicles in predetermined situations" was invented by Nathaniel Fairfield (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua Seth Herbach (Mountain View, Calif.) and Vadim Furman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods enable an autonomous vehicle to request assistance from a remote operator in certain predetermined situations. One example method includes determining a representation of an environment of an autonomous vehicle based on sensor data of the environment. Based on the representation, the metho...