ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,902, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Vehicle light classification system" was invented by Fei Xia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bing Wu (San Jose, Calif.), David Lee (San Carlos, Calif.) and Zijian Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described aspects and implementations enable vehicle light classification in autonomous vehicle (AV) applications. In one implementation, disclosed is a method and a system to perform the method that includes, obtaining, by a processing device, first image data characterizing a driving environment of an autonomous vehicle (AV). The processing device may...