US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 21 for "Preparing autonomous vehicles for turns" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,408, issued on July 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Preparing autonomous vehicles for turns" was invented by Benjamin Charrow (Millbrae, Calif.) and Nathaniel Fairfield (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to maneuvering a vehicle prior to making a turn from a current lane of the vehicle. As an example, a route that includes making the turn from the lane is identified. An area of the lane prior to the turn having a lane width of at least a predetermined size is also identified. Sensor data identifying an object within the lane is received from a perception system of a ve...