US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 29 for "Consideration of risks in active sensing for an autonomous vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,912, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Consideration of risks in active sensing for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Eric Teller (San Francisco) and Peter Lombrozo (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle configured for active sensing may also be configured to weigh expected information gains from active-sensing actions against risk costs associated with the active-sensing actions. An example method involves: (a) receiving information from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, (b) determining a risk-cost framework that indicates risk costs across a r...