ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,971, issued on July 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Exception handling for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Dong Li (Los Gatos, Calif.), Matthew McNaughton (Mountain View, Calif.), Shir Yehoshua (San Francisco), Aida Khosroshahi (San Jose, Calif.) and Ioan-Alexandru Sucan (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology relate to exception handling for a vehicle. For instance, a current trajectory for the vehicle and sensor data corresponding to one or more objects may be received. Based on the received sensor data, projected trajectories of the one or more objects may be de...