US Patent Issued to Waymo on April 7 for "Systems and techniques for field-of-view improvements in autonomous trucking systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,368, issued on April 7, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and techniques for field-of-view improvements in autonomous trucking systems" was invented by Andre Strobel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure relate to performance and safety improvements for autonomous trucking systems, such as mitigation of blind spots in the field of view of a sensing system of an autonomous vehicle, using shielding by other vehicles in adverse weather conditions, and deploying a cooperative expansion of the sensing field of view using external sensing system...