US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 16 for "Ambient lighting conditions for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,253, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Ambient lighting conditions for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Salil Pandit (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nirmal Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to using ambient lighting conditions with passenger and goods pickups and drop offs with autonomous vehicles. For instance, a map of ambient lighting conditions for stopping locations may be generated by receiving ambient lighting condition data for predetermined stopping locations and arranging this data into a plurality of buckets based on time and one of the stopp...