ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,152, issued on April 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Repositioning rooftop sensors for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Atul Kumar (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to repositioning a rooftop sensor of an autonomous vehicle when needed to reduce the overall height of the autonomous vehicle. For instance, while an autonomous vehicle is being controlled in an autonomous driving mode, a low clearance zone may be identified. An activation location may be determined based on the low clearance zone and a current speed of the autonomous vehicle. Once the activatio...