US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 28 for "Assessing perception of sensor using known mapped objects" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,266, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Assessing perception of sensor using known mapped objects" was invented by Mehmet Akman (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining perceptive range of a vehicle in real time. For instance, a static object defined in pre-stored map information may be identified. Sensor data generated by a sensor of the vehicle may be received. The sensor data may be processed to determine when the static object is first detected in an environment of the vehicle. A distance between the object and a location of the vehicle ...