US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 8 for "Determining changes in a driving environment based on vehicle behavior" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,481, issued on July 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining changes in a driving environment based on vehicle behavior" was invented by David Ian Franklin Ferguson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for determining whether a driving environment has changed relative to previously stored information about the driving environment. The apparatus may include an autonomous driving computer system configured to detect one or more vehicles in the driving environment, and determine corresponding trajectories for those detected vehicles. The autonomous driving computer sy...