US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 21 for "Tracking vanished objects for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,412, issued on July 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Tracking vanished objects for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Luis Torres (San Francisco) and Brandon Luders (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods for controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, sensor data may be received from one or more sensors of the perception system of the vehicle, the sensor data identifying characteristics of an object perceived by the perception system. When it is determined that the object is no longer being perceived by the one or more sensors o...