US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 25 for "Natural language communications with an autonomous vehicle" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,522, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Natural language communications with an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Christopher Paul Urmson (Los Altos, Calif.), Sterling J. Anderson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Andrew Bagnell (Pittsburgh), Jason Leu (Pittsburgh) and Colin Mease (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to enabling natural language communications with an autonomous vehicle. In some implementations, processor(s) of a system can initiate and conduct a conversation with a remote communication participant that is located remotely from the autonomo...