ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,020, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for clearing sensor occlusions" was invented by Brandon Douglas Luders (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tim Campbell (Los Angeles) and Nathaniel Fairfield (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that involves identifying a target region of an environment of an autonomous vehicle to be monitored for presence of moving objects. The method also involves operating a first sensor to obtain a scan of a portion of the environment that includes at least a portion of the target region and an intermediate region between the auto...