ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,814, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Stop location change detection" was invented by Romain Thibaux (Fremont, Calif.), David Harrison Silver (San Carlos, Calif.) and Congrui Hetang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to approaches for determining appropriate stopping locations at intersections for vehicles operating in a self-driving mode. While many intersections have stop lines painted on the roadway, many others have no such lines. Even if a stop line is present, the physical location may not match what is in store map data, which may be out of date due to...