US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 3 for "Evaluating pullovers for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,959, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Evaluating pullovers for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Daniella Gutlansky (San Francisco), Mishika Vora (Hayward, Calif.), Tiffany Washburn (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yu Zheng (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sandra Lennie (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to evaluating pullovers for autonomous vehicles. In one instance, a set of potential pullover locations within a predetermined distance of a destination may be identified. Whether any of the potential pullover locations of the set include one or more of a plurality of p...