US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for providing on-demand service using autonomous vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,276, issued on July 1, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing on-demand service using autonomous vehicle" was invented by Hongki Cha (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service providing device includes a processor, a memory, and a communication device, wherein the processor executes a program stored in the memory to perform: starting a trip by controlling an autonomous vehicle; calculating an expected completion time of the trip according to a predetermined update period; and determining whether the trip is completed within a...