US Patent Issued to Waymo on Feb. 18 for "System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,928, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Jiajun Zhu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher Paul Urmson (Mountain View, Calif.), Dirk Haehnel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathaniel Fairfield (Rockingham, Va.) and Russell Leigh Smith (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for optimizing one or more object detection parameters used by an autonomous vehicle to detect objects in images. The autonomous vehicle may capture the images using one or more sensors. The autonomous veh...