ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,652, issued on June 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Determining the stationary state of detected vehicles" was invented by David Harrison Silver (San Carlos, Calif.) and David I. Ferguson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle that may detect other nearby vehicles and designate stationary vehicles as being in one of a short-term stationary state or a long-term stationary state. This determination may be made based on various indicia, including visible indicia displayed by the detected vehicle and traffic control factors relating to the detected v...