US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 23 for "Methods and systems for detecting obstructions on a sensor housing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,534, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for detecting obstructions on a sensor housing" was invented by Gil Shotan (Mountain View, Calif.), Luke Wachter (Mountain View, Calif.), Colin Braley (Mountain View, Calif.), Christian Lauterbach (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiaoxiang Hu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ming Zou (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method involves obtaining a plurality of scans of a field-of-view (FOV) of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device disposed inside a housing. Obtaining each scan of the plurality of scans comprises: t...