ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,793, issued on June 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adjusting vehicle sensor field of view volume" was invented by Simon Verghese (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alexander McCauley (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving, from one or more sensors associated with an autonomous vehicle, sensor data associated with a target object in an environment of the vehicle during a first environmental condition, where at least one sensor of the sensor(s) is configurable to be associated with one of a plurality of operating field of view volumes. The method also includes based on t...