ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,704, issued on July 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Implementing autonomous vehicle lane understanding systems using filter-based lane tracking" was invented by Hang Yan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhengyu Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Yan Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jingxiao Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Dmitry Kalenichenko (Marina Del Ray, Calif.), Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev (San Francisco), Alper Ayvaci (San Jose, Calif.) and Xu Chen (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, by a processing device, input data derived from a set of sensors of an autonomous vehicle (AV), generating, by the ...