US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 30 for "Inferring state of traffic signal and other aspects of a vehicle's environment based on surrogate data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,035, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Inferring state of traffic signal and other aspects of a vehicle's environment based on surrogate data" was invented by Peter Lombrozo (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Eric Teller (San Francisco) and Bradley Templeton (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous mode can obtain sensor data from one or more sensors observing one or more aspects of an environment of the vehicle. At least one aspect of the environment of the vehicle that is not observed by the one or more sensors could be inferred based on the sensor ...