US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 2 for "Online lane estimation and tracking in autonomous vehicle and driving assistance applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,898, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Online lane estimation and tracking in autonomous vehicle and driving assistance applications" was invented by Guan Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yue Shen (Mountain View, Calif.), Martin Nikoltchev (Oakland, Calif.), Pengchong Jin (Mountain View, Calif.), Yi Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jiyang Gao (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described aspects and implementations enable online lane estimation and tracking in autonomous vehicle and driver assistance applications. In one implementation, disclosed is a method and a system to perform the metho...