US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 8 for "Detecting and responding to sirens" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,485, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting and responding to sirens" was invented by David Harrison Silver (Millbrae, Calif.), Angus Leigh (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Ingram (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jennifer Taylor (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Vaibhav Nangia (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to detecting and responding to emergency vehicles. This may include using a plurality of microphones to detect a siren noise corresponding to an emergency vehicle and to estimate a bearing of the emergency vehicle. This estimated bearing is compared to map infor...