US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Dec. 9 for "Communication with users for autonomous delivery" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,015, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Communication with users for autonomous delivery" was invented by Jonah Houston (San Jose, Calif.) and Lauren Argo (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more messages may be sent to a user who is to receive an item delivered by an AV. A message may include information of an attribute of the item that triggers the generation of the one or more messages. The attribute may indicate an extent of ease of the user carrying the item from a predetermined location, e.g., the drop-off location for the delivery. The attribute may be size, weight, temp...