ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,941, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Traffic signal response for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Jens-Steffen Ralf Gutmann (Cupertino, Calif.), Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.), Nathaniel Fairfield (Mountain View, Calif.), Dmitri A. Dolgov (Los Altos, Calif.) and Donald Jason Burnette (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining whether a vehicle should continue through an intersection. For example, the one or more of the vehicle's computers may identify a time when the traffic signal light will turn from yellow to red. The one ...