US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for adjusting vehicle behavior based on ambient ground relative wind speed estimations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,961, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for adjusting vehicle behavior based on ambient ground relative wind speed estimations" was invented by Andrew Barton-Sweeney (Oakland, Calif.), Andre Strobel (Mountain View, Calif.), Mark Calleija (Mountain View, Calif.) and Joel Benito Manrique (Altadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to techniques for adjusting vehicle behavior based on ambient ground relative wind estimations. An onboard computing system may receive wind data from one or multiple wind sensors positioned onboard a vehicle. The wind dat...