US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 24 for "Systems and methods to determine a lane change strategy at a merge region" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,446, issued on March 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to determine a lane change strategy at a merge region" was invented by Pablo Abad (San Francisco), Karan Rajen Parikh (Bellevue, Wash.), Ross Anderson (San Francisco) and Khawaja Waqee Khalid (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided that involves determining, based on map data, an approaching merge region comprising an on-ramp merging with a road comprising one or more lanes, wherein a truck is traveling on an initial lane of the road according to a navigation plan. The method involves an...