US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on July 22 for "Conveyor system for delivery using autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,279, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Conveyor system for delivery using autonomous vehicles" was invented by Timothy Jon Meador (Fairfield, Calif.) and Alexis De Stasio (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a conveyor system arranged within its main cabin. The conveyor system includes attachment points for attaching transport bags to the conveyor system, and a motor to move the transport bags to different positions along the conveyor system. The AV includes a door that can open and close to provide access to the transport bags. The AV further incl...