US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 7 for "Real-time adjustment of vehicle sensor field of view volume" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,003, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time adjustment of vehicle sensor field of view volume" was invented by Simon Verghese (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alexander McCauley (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods that can be used for adjusting the field of view of one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle. In the systems and methods, each sensor of the one or more sensors is configured to operate in accordance with a field of view volume up to a maximum field of view volume. The systems and methods include determining an operating environment o...