US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 11 for "Model for excluding vehicle from sensor field of view" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,843, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Model for excluding vehicle from sensor field of view" was invented by Nicholas Armstrong-Crews (Mountain View, Calif.), Christian Lauterbach (Campbell, Calif.), Scott McCloskey (Mountain View, Calif.) and Peter Morton (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to developing a highly accurate understanding of a vehicle's sensor fields of view in relation to the vehicle itself. A training phase is employed to gather sensor data in various situations and scenarios, and a modeling phase takes such information and identifies self...