ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,737, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Autonomous vehicle cabin and controller to manage a fleet of robots" was invented by Burkay Donderici (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for management of autonomous cargo by autonomous vehicles (AVs). An example method can include determining, based on data from one or more sensors, a location for deploying a ramp that enables robots to enter the AV, the location comprising an area free of obstacles having one or more dimensions above a threshold; generating an instruction configured to trigger the A...