US Patent Issued to Waymo on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle sensor modules with external audio receivers" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,110, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Vehicle sensor modules with external audio receivers" was invented by Cheng-Han Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Choon Ping Chng (Los Altos, Calif.), Jun Hou (Shanghai), Miklos Szentkiralyi (San Bruno, Calif.) and Rutvik Acharya (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to vehicle sensor modules with external audio receivers. An example sensor module may include sensors and can be coupled to a vehicle's roof with a first microphone positioned proximate to the front of the sensor module. The sensor module can also include a second micr...