US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on April 8 for "Systems and techniques for monitoring and maintaining cleanliness of an autonomous vehicle" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,501, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and techniques for monitoring and maintaining cleanliness of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Jeffrey Brandon (Phoenix) and Domenico Rusciano (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for maintaining cleanliness of an autonomous vehicle. In some examples, an autonomous vehicle fleet management device may receive cleanliness data corresponding to at least one autonomous vehicle. In some aspects, the autonomous vehicle fleet management device may determine, based on the cleanlin...