ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,278, issued on July 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Continuing lane driving prediction" was invented by Vishu Goyal (Sunnvale, Calif.) and Kai Ding (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode in accordance with behavior predictions for other road users in the vehicle's vicinity. In particular, the vehicle's onboard computing system may predict whether another road user will perform a "continuing" lane driving operation, such as going straight in a turn-only lane. Sensor data from detected/observed objects in the vehicle's nearb...