ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,947, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Road condition deep learning model" was invented by Xin Zhou (Novi, Mich.), Roshni Cooper (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael James (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to using on-board sensor data, off-board information and a deep learning model to classify road wetness and/or to perform a regression analysis on road wetness based on a set of input information. Such information includes on-board and/or off-board signals obtained from one or more sources including on-board perception sensors, other on-board modules, external w...