US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 29 for "Detecting safety-relevant road traffic conflicts" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,393, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting safety-relevant road traffic conflicts" was invented by Johan Engstrom (Los Gatos, Calif.), Francesca Margherita Favaro (Los Gatos, Calif.), Azadeh Dinparastdjadid (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shuyuan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), John Michael Scanlon (Burlingame, Calif.) and Trent William Victor (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatically designating traffic scenarios as safety-relevant traffic conflicts between agents in a driving environment. One of t...