US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 6 for "Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,550, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle" was invented by Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.), Christopher Kennedy Ludwick (Los Altos, Calif.) and Laurens Andreas Feenstra (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining and responding to an internal state of a self-driving vehicle. For instance, an image of an interior of the vehicle captured by a camera mounted in the vehicle is received. The image is processed in order to identify one or more visible markers at predetermined locations withi...