US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 12 for "Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicles based on sensor blind spots and limitations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,257, issued on May 12, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicles based on sensor blind spots and limitations" was invented by Dmitri A. Dolgov (Los Altos, Calif.) and Christopher Paul Urmson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Models can be generated of a vehicle's view of its environment and used to maneuver the vehicle. This view need not include what objects or features the vehicle is actually seeing, but rather those areas that the vehicle is able to observe using its sensors if the sensors were completely un-occluded. For example, for each of a plurality of sen...