US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 9 for "Managing maneuvers for autonomous vehicles in certain situations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,855, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing maneuvers for autonomous vehicles in certain situations" was invented by Mishika Vora (Hayward, Calif.) and Matthew Paul McNaughton (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of managing maneuvering of an autonomous vehicle in certain situations. For instance, a state of the autonomous vehicle may be identified, for example by one or more processors of a planning system of a vehicle, a state of the autonomous vehicle. Based on the state of the autonomous vehicle, the one or more processors of the...