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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Waymo LLC

82 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

82
Total Pending OAs
19
Final Rejections
63
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19059867 Close-in Sensing Camera System AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B 2488 Non-Final OA Feb 21, 2025
19038794 Reachability User Experience Interfaces for Autonomous Vehicles PARK, KYLE S 3666 Non-Final OA Jan 28, 2025
18989050 ARRANGING TRIPS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES BASED ON WEATHER CONDITIONS ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 3669 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2024
18990426 VIBROMETRY-BASED BEHAVIOR PREDICTION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE APPLICATIONS HOLMAN, JOHN D 3667 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2024
18989096 EXTERNAL FACING COMMUNICATIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES BARAKAT, MOHAMED 2689 Non-Final OA Dec 20, 2024
18981277 GENERATING CONTROL INPUTS FOR AGENT TRAJECTORY PLANNING USING NEURAL NETWORKS AN, IG TAI 3662 Non-Final OA Dec 13, 2024
18980144 SECONDARY DISENGAGE ALERT FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ALUNKAL, THOMAS D 2686 Non-Final OA Dec 13, 2024
18973151 Systems For Implementing Fallback Behaviors For Autonomous Vehicles SWEENEY, BRIAN P 3668 Non-Final OA Dec 09, 2024
18960963 Air Cooling System for Electronic Spinning Assembly REITZ, MICHAEL K. 3745 Non-Final OA Nov 26, 2024
18955364 TESTING A SCHEDULING SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES USING SIMULATIONS SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS 3663 Non-Final OA Nov 21, 2024
18953500 Assisted Perception for Autonomous Vehicles OH, HARRY Y 3657 Non-Final OA Nov 20, 2024
18953761 Determining Pickup and Destination Locations for Autonomous Vehicles ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE 3661 Non-Final OA Nov 20, 2024
18952239 METHOD AND VEHICLE FOR RESPONDING TO A LANE BLOCKING OBJECT REFAI, RAMSEY 3664 Non-Final OA Nov 19, 2024
18950372 FLEET MANAGEMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 3624 Non-Final OA Nov 18, 2024
18950841 TREE POLICY PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DRIVING SOLUTIONS HO, MATTHEW 3669 Non-Final OA Nov 18, 2024
18946349 IDENTIFYING PARKABLE AREAS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES POINT, RUFUS C 2689 Non-Final OA Nov 13, 2024
18936116 Railroad Light Detection KUNTZ, JEWEL A 3666 Non-Final OA Nov 04, 2024
18924713 Reporting Road Event Data and Sharing with Other Vehicles SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J 3662 Non-Final OA Oct 23, 2024
18923014 Lane Adjustment Techniques for Slow Lead Agents SHAFI, MUHAMMAD 3666 Non-Final OA Oct 22, 2024
18921915 Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for using Remote Assistance to Annotate Images of an Environment MILLER, PRESTON JAY 3661 Non-Final OA Oct 21, 2024
18913074 BEHAVIOR PREDICTION USING SCENE-CENTRIC REPRESENTATIONS LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE 3669 Non-Final OA Oct 11, 2024
18905849 Robust Method for Detecting Traffic Signals and Their Associated States WHALEN, MICHAEL F 3661 Non-Final OA Oct 03, 2024
18901951 CAMERA PEEK INTO TURN HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 Non-Final OA Sep 30, 2024
18897239 Synchronized Spinning LIDAR and Rolling Shutter Camera System PHAM, NAM D 2487 Non-Final OA Sep 26, 2024
18896422 User Interface Techniques for Recommending Remote Assistance Actions TC 3600, DOCKET 3600 Non-Final OA Sep 25, 2024
18889024 Remote Assistance for an Autonomous Vehicle in Low Confidence Situations ANWARI, MACEEH 3663 Non-Final OA Sep 18, 2024
18887589 QUALITY SCORING FOR PULLOVERS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WANG, JINGLI 3666 Non-Final OA Sep 17, 2024
18828864 Detection of Pedestrian Using Radio Devices SHUDY, ANGELINA M 3668 Non-Final OA Sep 09, 2024
18815952 TRAJECTORY LIMITING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WILLIS, BRANDON Z. 3665 Non-Final OA Aug 27, 2024
18814682 DETERMINING AND RESPONDING TO AN INTERNAL STATUS OF A VEHICLE ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE 3661 Non-Final OA Aug 26, 2024
18801993 SEMANTIC IDENTIFICATION OF PICKUP LOCATIONS HILGENDORF, DALE W 3662 Final Rejection Aug 13, 2024
18796553 REAL-TIME LANE CHANGE SELECTION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AMIN, BHAVESH V 3657 Non-Final OA Aug 07, 2024
18796557 Methods and Systems for Automatic Problematic Maneuver Detection and Adapted Motion Planning GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M 3665 Non-Final OA Aug 07, 2024
18794503 LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING DEVICE USING COMBINED OPTICAL SIGNALS LEE, TYLER J 3663 Non-Final OA Aug 05, 2024
18780296 PLANNING FOR OCCLUSIONS WITH SURFEL MAPS LAROSE, RENEE MARIE 3657 Non-Final OA Jul 22, 2024
18760933 Systems and Methods for Infrared Sensing DOWNING, SAVANNAH STARR 2884 Non-Final OA Jul 01, 2024
18678806 TESTING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF DRIVERS TASKED WITH MONITORING A VEHICLE OPERATING IN AN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING MODE NING, PETER Y 3661 Non-Final OA May 30, 2024
18652670 EMERGENCY SIGNALING IN AUTONOMOUS TRUCKING SYSTEMS REINERT, JONATHAN E 3668 Non-Final OA May 01, 2024
18648549 FALLBACK REQUESTS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES RAMPURIA, SATISH 2193 Final Rejection Apr 29, 2024
18642336 DETECTING SAFETY-RELEVANT ROAD TRAFFIC CONFLICTS RUDY, ANDREW J 3668 Non-Final OA Apr 22, 2024
18605352 MANAGING A FLEET OF VEHICLES MERLINO, DAVID P 3665 Non-Final OA Mar 14, 2024
18600449 STATEFUL AND END-TO-END MULTI-OBJECT TRACKING BOYAR, NOAH WILLIAM 2669 Non-Final OA Mar 08, 2024
18544896 ASSESSING SURPRISE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES MILLER, LEAH NICOLE 3663 Non-Final OA Dec 19, 2023
18542327 TRAINING A POINT CLOUD PROCESSING MODEL USING A COMPUTER VISION MODEL MEMON, OWAIS IQBAL 2663 Final Rejection Dec 15, 2023
18540354 DISTILLATION-TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY PREDICTION NWUHA, LOUIS TOCHUKWU ENE 2674 Non-Final OA Dec 14, 2023
18535532 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A PULLOVER SPOT IN RESPONSE TO DETECTED LOCAL FAILURE ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 3669 Final Rejection Dec 11, 2023
18531643 Stacked Image Processing to Reduce Blur for Autonomous Driving LU, ZHIYU 2665 Final Rejection Dec 06, 2023
18515949 Methods and Systems for Transmit Beam Agnostic Radar Calibration PERVIN, NUZHAT 3648 Non-Final OA Nov 21, 2023
18506925 3-D OBJECT DETECTION BASED ON SYNTHETIC POINT CLOUD FRAMES LE, JOHN H 2857 Non-Final OA Nov 10, 2023
18492891 Detecting Unfamiliar Signs CASS, JEAN PAUL 3666 Non-Final OA Oct 24, 2023
18487549 ADVANCED TRIP PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SERVICES YIM, EISEN DONGKYU 3669 Final Rejection Oct 16, 2023
18374257 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES NGUYEN, MISA H 3666 Non-Final OA Sep 28, 2023
18459537 PREPOSITIONING AND DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTION OF ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE VEHICLES IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SERVICE PRASAD, NANCY N 3624 Final Rejection Sep 01, 2023
18239168 CONFIGURATION-BASED SAMPLING OF RUN SEGMENTS FOR SIMULATING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BEHAVIOR TRAN, ALYSE TRAMANH 3656 Non-Final OA Aug 29, 2023
18332021 NO-BLOCK ZONE COSTS IN SPACE AND TIME FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES KHALED, ABDALLA A 3667 Non-Final OA Jun 09, 2023
18142437 RARE EXAMPLE MINING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES SOOFI, YAZAN A 3668 Non-Final OA May 02, 2023
18142429 RARE EXAMPLE MINING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES VO, STEVEN 2148 Non-Final OA May 02, 2023
18108749 CAMERA-RADAR DATA FUSION FOR EFFICIENT OBJECT DETECTION VANCHY JR, MICHAEL J 2666 Non-Final OA Feb 13, 2023
18064612 Methods and Systems for Providing Remote Assistance to an Autonomous Vehicle CASTRO, PAUL A 3658 Non-Final OA Dec 12, 2022
17994991 TRAINING A CLASSIFIER TO DETECT OPEN VEHICLE DOORS KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 Final Rejection Nov 28, 2022
17951001 DETECTING STATIONARY NON-PARTICIPANTS OF TRAFFIC CHOU, SHIEN MING 3667 Final Rejection Sep 22, 2022
17947904 INTERFERENCE-BASED SUPPRESSION OF INTERNAL RETRO-REFLECTIONS IN COHERENT SENSING DEVICES BOEGHOLM, ISABELLE LIN 3645 Non-Final OA Sep 19, 2022
17930441 Temporally Modulated Light Emission for Defect Detection in Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) Devices and Cameras HULKA, JAMES R 3645 Non-Final OA Sep 08, 2022
17886747 GAZE AND AWARENESS PREDICTION USING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL LINHARDT, LAURA E 3663 Final Rejection Aug 12, 2022
17882687 Smart Signs for Autonomous Vehicles TUN, NAY L 2688 Final Rejection Aug 08, 2022
17865007 CONTEXT AWARE STOPPING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 3669 Final Rejection Jul 14, 2022
17830021 USER-CONTROLLED ROUTE SELECTION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S 3663 Non-Final OA Jun 01, 2022
17662239 Mitigating Crosstalk from High-Intensity Returns in a Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) Device BOEGHOLM, ISABELLE LIN 3645 Final Rejection May 06, 2022
17730436 UNIFICATION OF SPECIALIZED MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR EFFICIENT OBJECT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN 2147 Non-Final OA Apr 27, 2022
17669215 INFRARED SENSING DATA-ASSISTED CLASSIFICATION OF VULNERABLE ROAD USERS STANDKE, ADAM C 2129 Non-Final OA Feb 10, 2022
17549088 COUPLED LASERS FOR COHERENT DISTANCE AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS BOEGHOLM, ISABELLE LIN 3645 Non-Final OA Dec 13, 2021
17549124 LIDAR DEVICES WITH FREQUENCY AND TIME MULTIPLEXING OF SENSING SIGNALS VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM 3645 Final Rejection Dec 13, 2021
17435582 Systems and Methods for Real-Time LIDAR Range Calibration NOEL, JEMPSON 3645 Non-Final OA Sep 01, 2021
17398436 HARD EXAMPLE MINING FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK BAKER, EZRA JAMES 2126 Final Rejection Aug 10, 2021
17391618 USING MAP INFORMATION TO SMOOTH OBJECTS GENERATED FROM SENSOR DATA NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K 3645 Non-Final OA Aug 02, 2021
17376611 Adjusting Lidar Parameters Based on Environmental Conditions QI, ZHENGQING J 3645 Final Rejection Jul 15, 2021
17349489 IMPLEMENTING SYNTHETIC SCENES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES MERLINO, DAVID P 3665 Non-Final OA Jun 16, 2021
17303770 DETERMINATION OF ATMOSPHERIC VISIBILITY IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE APPLICATIONS XIAO, YUQING 3645 Non-Final OA Jun 07, 2021
17195882 DETECTING AND RESPONDING TO SOUNDS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3658 Final Rejection Mar 09, 2021
17136489 SIMULATIONS OF SENSOR BEHAVIOR IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WU, PAYSUN 3665 Non-Final OA Dec 29, 2020
17099634 MULTI OBJECT TRACKING USING MEMORY ATTENTION WU, NICHOLAS S 2148 Final Rejection Nov 16, 2020
16869682 USING PREDICTION MODELS FOR SCENE DIFFICULTY IN VEHICLE ROUTING KHATIB, RAMI 3669 Final Rejection May 08, 2020

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