Patent Applications by Waymo LLC on May 29th, 2025

Waymo LLC: 3 patent applications

Waymo LLC has applied for patents in the areas of G01C21/3682 ({output of POI information on a road map (, take precedence)}, 1), G01S7/4039 (Means for monitoring or calibrating, 1), G06Q10/06311 ({Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group}, 1)

With keywords such as: vehicle, autonomous, reachability, status, with, user, technology, involves, communicating, associated in patent application abstracts.

Top Inventors:

Salil Pandit of Palo Alto CA US (1 patents)
Nirmal Patel of Sunnyvale CA US (1 patents)
Guilherme Villar of San Francisco CA US (1 patents)
Matthew Corey Hall of Cupertino CA US (1 patents)
Michael Dane Fina of Glen Ellyn IL US (1 patents)

Patent Applications by Waymo LLC

20250172406. Reachability User Experience Interfaces Autonomous Vehicles (Waymo LLC)

Abstract: the technology involves communicating the reachability status associated with an autonomous vehicle to a user such as a rider within the vehicle, a person awaiting pickup, or a customer that scheduled a package deliver. reachability information about pickup and/or drop off locations is presentable via an app on a user device, which helps set expectations with customers about where the vehicle is most likely to be able to perform a pickup and/or drop off. this may include indicating how much variance there may be based on current congestion, parking or idling regulations, or weather conditions. the reachability information may be presented via one or more visualization tools to indicate the uncertainty and/or likely final location. presenting such contextual information may be done based on real time information, and the presentation may be updated as needed. historical information about the location may also be used to lower the level of uncertainty.

20250172662. Methods Systems Validating Automotive Radar Pitch using Elevation Sidelobe Measurements (Waymo LLC)

Abstract: example embodiments relate to techniques and systems for using elevation sidelobe measurements to validate automotive radar pitch. a vehicle computing system can cause a radar to transmit radar signals into an environment of the vehicle and receive radar data corresponding to the transmitted radar signals. the computing system identifies a sidelobe represented in the radar data and estimates a relative measurement corresponding to the sidelobe. the relative measurement corresponding to the sidelobe represents at least an elevation measurement or an azimuth measurement corresponding to the sidelobe. the computing system then determines a pitch error based on a comparison between the relative measurement corresponding to the sidelobe and a reference sidelobe measurement and performs a calibration process for subsequent operation of the radar based on the pitch error. a computing system can also use elevation sidelobe measurements to estimate vehicle speed, detect road grade changes, and detect precipitation on the road.

20250173639. FLEET MANAGEMENT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (Waymo LLC)

Abstract: aspects of the disclosure provide for managing a fleet of autonomous vehicles of a transportation service. for instance, a plurality of inputs including a current demand for services, predictions about future demand for services, and current status of the fleet may be identified. the current status may include information identifying one of a plurality of predefined states for each autonomous vehicle of the fleet. a schedule may be determined based on the plurality of inputs. the schedule may define a number of autonomous vehicles that should be in each of the plurality of expected future states. the schedule may be used to determine an assignment for each of the autonomous vehicles to one of the plurality of predefined states.