ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,471, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for automatic problematic maneuver detection and adapted motion planning" was invented by Jason Hardy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xinfeng Le (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to methods and systems for automatic problematic maneuver detection and adapted motion planning. A computing device may obtain a route for navigation by a vehicle and a set of vehicle parameters corresponding to the vehicle. Each vehicle parameter can represent a physical attribute of the vehicle. The computing device may...