US Patent Issued to WAYMO on Feb. 10 for "Approach for consolidating observed vehicle trajectories into a single representative trajectory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,174, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Approach for consolidating observed vehicle trajectories into a single representative trajectory" was invented by David I. Ferguson (San Francisco) and Jiajun Zhu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus is provided for controlling the operation of an autonomous vehicle. According to one aspect, the autonomous vehicle may track the trajectories of other vehicles on a road. Based on the other vehicle's trajectories, the autonomous vehicle may generate a pool of combined trajectories. Subsequently, the autonomous vehicle may sele...