US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 4 for "Detecting potentially occluded objects for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,499, issued on March 4, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting potentially occluded objects for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Jennifer Iglesias (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, that the vehicle is approaching a crosswalk may be determined. A set of segments may be identified for the crosswalk. A set of potential occluded pedestrians may be generated. Each potential occluded pedestrian of the set is assigned a speed characteristic and a segment. The segments of the set of potential occlu...