ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,828, issued on May 13, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Physics-informed optimization for autonomous driving systems" was invented by David Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kevin Yoon (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying map data comprising driving constraint data for a route of an autonomous vehicle (AV), the map data being of a road network associated with the route of the AV, the driving constraint data being based on physical vehicle data. The method further includes, while the AV is travelling the route, identifying current environmental sensing data for a portion of the r...