ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,105, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Identifying parkable areas for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Chi Yeung Jonathan Ng (San Francisco), Anthony Ronald Grue (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Qichi Yang (Foster City, Calif.), Kevin Poulet (Mountain View, Calif.), Zijian Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and David Harrison Silver (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for the identification of parkable areas. In one instance, observations of parked vehicles may be identified from logged data. The observations may be used to determine whether a sub-portion of an edg...