US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 30 for "Route optimization for autonomous driving systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,028, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Route optimization for autonomous driving systems" was invented by David Smith (Mountain View, Calif.) and Christopher Bowen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure address shortcomings of the existing technology by enabling routing of an autonomous vehicles (AV) by identifying routes from a first location to a second location, identifying a target efficiency value of autonomous driving along a respective route, determining, in view of historical data for the respective route and using one ...