ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,589, issued on June 17.
"Arranging passenger trips for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Philip Moltmann (Menlo Park, Calif.), Reed Morse (Millbrae, Calif.), Jason Persampieri (San Mateo, Calif.), Kevin Malta (San Francisco) and Lauren Schwendimann (Burlingame, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for arranging a trip in an autonomous vehicle without a driver. For instance, a request may be received from a client computing device associated with a first person to arrange the trip for a second person. The request may include a pickup location for the second person and a destination location for th...