US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 21 for "Sensor steering for multi-directional long-range perception" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,750, issued on April 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor steering for multi-directional long-range perception" was invented by Clayton Kunz (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, vehicles, and methods for adjusting a pointing direction and/or a scanning region of a lidar. An example method includes determining a plurality of points of interest within an environment of a vehicle. The method also includes assigning, to each point of interest of the plurality of points of interest, a respective priority score. The method additionally includes partition...