ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,660, issued on June 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Change detection using curve alignment" 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 determining whether a feature of map information. For example, data identifying an object detected in a vehicle's environment and including location coordinates is received. This information is used to identify a corresponding feature from pre-stored map information based on a map location of the corresponding feature. The corresponding feature is defined as a...