ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,205, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Camera ring structure for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Kimberly Geneva Toth (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brendan Hermalyn (San Francisco), Shane Mcguire (Mountain View, Calif.), Felix Jose Alvarez Rivera (Tarzana, Calif.), Jeremy Dittmer (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to autonomous vehicles that use a perception system to detect objects and features in the vehicle's surroundings. A camera assembly having a ring-type structure is provided that gives the perception system an ...