US Patent Issued to Waymo on Feb. 18 for "Actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,140, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints" was invented by David I. Ferguson (San Francisco) and Jiajun Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints are disclosed. In one embodiment, an example method is disclosed that includes causing a sensor in an autonomous vehicle to sense information about an environment in a first field of view, where a portion of the environment is obscured in the first field of v...