US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 21 for "Sensor and environmental evaluation for vehicles" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,751, issued on April 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor and environmental evaluation for vehicles" was invented by Colin Braley (Mountain View, Calif.), Antonio Teran Espinoza (Cambridge, Mass.), William Baxter (Kirkland, Wash.), Michael Marx (Mountain View, Calif.) and Luke Wachter (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling behaviors of autonomous vehicles based on evaluation of sensors of those vehicles. For instance, sensor data including distance and intensity information for a point in an environment of an autonomous vehicle may be received. An ...