US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 13 for "Unmapped U-turn behavior prediction using machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,855, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unmapped U-turn behavior prediction using machine learning" was invented by Vishu Goyal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shen Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating unmapped U-turn predictions using a machine learning model. One of the methods includes obtaining features of an agent travelling on a roadway. One or more unmapped U-turn regions in a vicinity of the agent on the roadway are identified. For each of the unmapped U-turn regio...