US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 6 for "Object tracking across a wide range of distances for driving applications" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,395, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Waymo LLC.

"Object tracking across a wide range of distances for driving applications" was invented by Qinru Li (Redmond, Wash.), Longlong Jing (Mountain View, Calif.), Ruichi Yu (Mountain View, Calif.), Xu Chen (Livermore, Calif.) and Shiwei Sheng (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described aspects and implementations enable efficient and seamless tracking of objects in vehicle environments using different sensing modalities across a wide range of distances. A perception system of a vehicle deploys an object tracking pipeline with a plurality of models that include a camera ...