US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 29 for "Quality scoring for pullovers for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,955, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Quality scoring for pullovers for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Salil Pandit (Palo Alto, Calif.), Daniella Gutlansky (San Francisco), Eamonn Doherty (Mountain View, Calif.), Eric Friedman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jonathan Pedersen (San Francisco), Andrew Chan (San Carlos, Calif.), Gaurav Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Bruce Mai (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to evaluating quality of a predetermined pullover location for an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a plurality of inputs for the predetermined ...