ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,158, issued on March 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Time gaps for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Jennifer Iglesias (San Francisco), Lucas Watson (Cambridge, Mass.) and Tian Yu Liu (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method of controlling an autonomous vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a predicted future trajectory for an object detected in a driving environment of the autonomous vehicle may be received. A routing intent for a planned trajectory for the autonomous vehicle may be received. The predicted future trajectory and the...