US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 8 for "Detection of loss-of-control vulnerable road users in automotive environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,897, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC.

"Detection of loss-of-control vulnerable road users in automotive environments" was invented by Lenna Kanehara (San Francisco), Kevin Sheu (San Jose, Calif.) and Clayton Gregory Kunz (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and techniques are directed to identifying and responding to presence of vulnerable road users (VRUs) in driving environments that are at risk of loss of control of their driving trajectories. The techniques include collecting, using a sensing system of an autonomous vehicle, sensing data for an environment of the autonomous vehicl...