US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 30 for "Using collision costs to maintain safe distances for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,277, issued on June 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using collision costs to maintain safe distances for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Benjamin Ingram (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of controlling an autonomous vehicle. The method may include receiving sensor data identifying a road user in a lane adjacent to the autonomous vehicle. A minimum magnitude of road user behavior for the road user that is likely to result in a collision with the autonomous vehicle. A collision cost may be determined based on the determined minimum magnitude of ro...