US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 10 for "Use of relationship between activities of different traffic signals in a network to improve traffic signal state estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,415, issued on June 10, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Use of relationship between activities of different traffic signals in a network to improve traffic signal state estimation" was invented by David I. Ferguson (San Francisco) and Bradley Templeton (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for using a relationship between activities of different traffic signals in a network to improve traffic signal state estimation are disclosed. An example method includes determining that a vehicle is approaching an upcoming traffic signal. The method may further include determining a state of one...