US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 18 for "Responding to emergency vehicles for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,157, issued on March 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Responding to emergency vehicles for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Aishwarya Parasuram (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Luyuan Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brandon Douglas Luders (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor data identifying an emergency vehicle approaching the autonomous vehicle may be received. A predicted trajectory for the emergency vehicle may be received. Whether the autonomous vehicle is impeding the emergency vehicle may be determined based on the predicted trajectory and map information ide...