US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 13 for "Three-dimensional location prediction from images" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,916, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional location prediction from images" was invented by Longlong Jing (Mountain View, Calif.), Ruichi Yu (Mountain View, Calif.), Jiyang Gao (Foster City, Calif.), Henrik Kretzschmar (Mountain View, Calif.), Kang Li (Sammamish, Wash.), Ruizhongtai Qi (Mountain View, Calif.), Hang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alper Ayvaci (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xu Chen (Livermore, Calif.), Dillon Cower (Woodinville, Wash.) and Congcong Li (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer st...