US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 23 for "Detecting and responding to parking behaviors in autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,990, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting and responding to parking behaviors in autonomous vehicles" was invented by David Harrison Silver (Millbrae, Calif.) and David Ian Franklin Ferguson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate controlling autonomous vehicles or vehicles having an autonomous driving mode. More particularly, these vehicles may identify and respond to other vehicles engaged in a parallel parking maneuver by receiving sensor data corresponding to objects in an autonomous vehicle's environment and including location information for th...