US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 19 for "Vehicle with multiple light detection and ranging devices (LIDARs)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,727, issued on May 19, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Vehicle with multiple light detection and ranging devices (LIDARs)" was invented by Pierre-yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Gaetan Pennecot (San Francisco), Drew Eugene Ulrich (San Francisco), Dorel Ionut Iordache (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Rahim Pardhan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is provided that includes one or more wheels positioned at a bottom side of the vehicle. The vehicle also includes a first light detection and ranging device (LIDAR) positioned at a top side of the vehicle opposite to the bottom side. The first LIDAR is config...