US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 15 for "Autonomous vehicle having a thermal infrared camera with replaceable filter" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,535, issued on July 15, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicle having a thermal infrared camera with replaceable filter" was invented by Vlad Constantin Cardei (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, for an autonomous vehicle navigation maintenance system. In one aspect, an autonomous vehicle monitoring system includes a mounting surface located on an autonomous vehicle, and a thermal imaging system affixed to the mounting surface, the thermal imaging system including a thermal imaging camera, a replaceable filter, and a filter fixture configured to affix t...