US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 16 for "Methods and systems for controlling gear shifts based on future trajectory information" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,717, issued on June 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for controlling gear shifts based on future trajectory information" was invented by Pinak J. Tulpule (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling gear shifts based on future trajectory information are presented herein. A vehicle computing system may receive sensor data representing an environment of the vehicle during autonomous navigation of a path and determine, based on the sensor data, the vehicle is approaching a predefined situation positioned along the path. The computing system may then estimate a futu...