US Patent Issued to WAYMO on March 24 for "Detecting street parked vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,276, issued on March 24, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting street parked vehicles" was invented by David Harrison Silver (San Carlos, Calif.), Jur Pieter Van Den Berg (San Francisco) and Nathaniel Fairfield (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle that may detected other nearby vehicles and identify them as parked or unparked. This identification may be based on visual indicia displayed by the detected vehicles as well as traffic control factors relating to the detected vehicles. Detected vehicles that are in a known parking spot may a...