US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 17 for "Reducing inconvenience to surrounding road users caused by stopped autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,649, issued on June 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reducing inconvenience to surrounding road users caused by stopped autonomous vehicles" was invented by John Wesley Dyer (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Epstein (Danville, Calif.) and Ken Hu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for reducing inconvenience to other road users caused by stopped autonomous vehicles. As an example, a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode may be stopped at a first location. While the vehicle is stopped, sensor data is received from a perception system of the vehicle. The senso...