ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,119, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Service area maps for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Carlos Rivera (Milpitas, Calif.), Austin Abrams (Redwood City, Calif.) and David Yonchar Margines (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for the generation of a service area map for autonomous vehicles. For instance, graph nodes of a road network may be iterated through in order to identify a set of reachable graph nodes based on a set of routing parameters that define driving limits for the autonomous vehicles. The road network may include the graph nodes ...