US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 16 for "Reporting road event data and sharing with other vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,763, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reporting road event data and sharing with other vehicles" was invented by Nathaniel Fairfield (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua Seth Herbach (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Hughes Chatham (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael Steven Montemerlo (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods allow for reporting and sharing of information reports relating to driving conditions within a fleet of autonomous vehicles. One example method includes receiving information reports relating to driving conditions from a plurality of autonomo...