US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 3 for "Automatic generating of blockages in map information for use by a fleet of autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,161, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatic generating of blockages in map information for use by a fleet of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Dmytro Tymofieiev (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chenyue Cook (San Francisco), Joshua Jacob (San Francisco) and Zekai Li (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods of generating blockages in map information for use by a fleet of autonomous vehicles. For instance, information from an autonomous vehicle of the fleet may be received by one or more processors of a server computing system. That the received information ...