US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 31 for "Thermal imaging for self-driving cars" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,841, issued on March 31, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Thermal imaging for self-driving cars" was invented by Alexander McCauley (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ralph H. Shepard (Menlo Park, Calif.), Brandyn White (Mountain View, Calif.) and Simon Verghese (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that utilize machine learning techniques to improve object classification in thermal imaging systems. In an example embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more infrared images of an environment. The method ad...