ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,273, issued on July 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Pedestrian crossing intent yielding" was invented by Xinwei Shi (Cupertino, Calif.), Junhua Mao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Khaled Refaat (Mountain View, Calif.), Tian Lan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jeonhyung Kang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhishuai Zhang (Baltimore) and Jonathan Chandler Stroud (Tempe, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium that determine yield behavior for an autonomous vehicle, and can include identifying an agent that is in a vicinity of an autonomous vehicle navigat...