US Patent Issued to Applied Electric Vehicles on Nov. 25 for "Autonomous vehicle hosted distribution service" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,293, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Applied Electric Vehicles Ltd (Scoresby, Australia).

"Autonomous vehicle hosted distribution service" was invented by Marc Alexander (Croydon Hills, Australia) and Aleks Witko (Mont Albert, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous vehicle hosted distribution services are described. In one or more implementations, a system is configured to control an autonomous vehicle to perform a parking maneuver at a host site associated with a user, authenticate an identity of the user for authorizing access to an inventory of items when the user approaches the vehicle, and use machine-learning to...