US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 13 for "Pullovers involving bicycle lanes for autonomous vehicles" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,852, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pullovers involving bicycle lanes for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Jakob Robert Zwiener (San Francisco), Mingshen Chen (Stony Brook, N.Y.) and Daniella Gutlansky (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for selecting a pullover location for an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a set of potential pullover locations may be identified by, determining a plurality of rightmost points that the autonomous vehicle can reach, determining whether any of the rightmost points would result in the autonomous vehicle encroaching...