US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 1 for "Velocity estimation and object tracking for autonomous vehicle applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,407, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC.

"Velocity estimation and object tracking for autonomous vehicle applications" was invented by Mingcheng Chen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xiaoxiang Hu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure address shortcomings of the existing technology by enabling velocity estimation for efficient object identification and tracking in autonomous vehicle (AV) applications, including: obtaining, by a sensing system of the AV, a plurality of return points, each return point having a velocity value and coordinates of a reflecting regio...