ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,201, issued on March 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Early object detection for unprotected turns" was invented by Brandon Douglas Luders (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for early detection of objects by a perception system of a vehicle, and triggering a precautionary action by the vehicle in response without waiting for a more precise detection. The vehicle has a multi-level sensor range, wherein a first level of the sensor range is adjacent an outer bounds of the sensor range and has a first confidence value, and a second level of the sensor range is within t...