ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,396, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Unknown driving hazard detection and response system" was invented by Jing Lu (San Francisco), Xingwei Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nanyan Zhu (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system installed on an autonomous vehicle (AV) is described and includes an unknown driving hazard detection module configured to detect an unusual driving behavior of at least one road participant operating in proximity to the AV, wherein the unusual driving behavior comprises a deviation from a behavior of the at least one road participant as predicted by the AV; and...