US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 8 for "Inferring future visibility to improve autonomous vehicle driving behavior and safety" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,894, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC.

"Inferring future visibility to improve autonomous vehicle driving behavior and safety" was invented by William V. Baxter III (Bellevue, Wash.), Kaifei Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mayank Singal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrei Tchouprakov (Mountain View, Calif.), Chenge Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ming Zou (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory storing instructions and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations including...