US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 9 for "Planning lane changes for autonomous vehicles using machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,883, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Planning lane changes for autonomous vehicles using machine learning" was invented by Fuming Lin (Mountain View, Calif.), Ross Peter Anderson (San Francisco) and Christopher Burgess Bowen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for planning lane changes for autonomous vehicles."

The patent was filed on Sept. 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/941,890.

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