ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,808, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Safety considerations for self-driving vehicles" was invented by Vijaysai Patnaik (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to detection of aberrant driving situations during operation of a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. Aberrant situations may include potential theft or unsafe conditions, which are determined according to one or more signals. The signals are derived from information detected about the environment around the vehicle, such as from one or more sensors disposed on the vehicle. In response to an aberrant situat...