ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,471, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Wrong-way driving modeling" was invented by Kai Ding (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephane Ross (San Jose, Calif.), Chenjie Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xiaoting Yin (Millbrae, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods of modeling wrong-way driving of road users. For instance, log data including an observed trajectory of a first road user may be accessed. A first set of candidate lane segments for wrong-way driving may be identified from map information. A second set of candidate lane segments for not wrong-way driving may...