ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,724, issued on March 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Detection of anomalous trailer behavior" was invented by Christopher Bowen (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to determining whether a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode is experiencing an anomalous condition, for instance due to a loss of tire pressure, a mechanical failure, or a shift or loss of cargo. The actual current pose of the vehicle is compared to an expected pose of the vehicle, where the expected pose is based on a model of the vehicle. If a pose discrepancy is identified, the anomalous cond...