US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 29 for "Prevention of traffic obstructions using artificial intelligence systems in automotive vehicle applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,944, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC.

"Prevention of traffic obstructions using artificial intelligence systems in automotive vehicle applications" was invented by Qichi Yang (Foster City, Calif.), Ming Ji (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pan Li (Fremont, Calif.), Jingwei Ji (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zijian Guo (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Di Huang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and techniques are directed to evaluation of suitability of stopping locations of a vehicle using a generative AI model. The disclosed techniques include collecting, using a sensing system, sensing data for a driving en...