US Patent Issued to Motional on Feb. 18 for "Errand service associated with ride request" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,412, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"Errand service associated with ride request" was invented by Kevin C. Gall (Newmarket, N.H.), Bence Cserna (East Boston, Mass.) and Alexander Brown (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for completing an errand request prior to fulfilling a ride request. Some methods described include obtaining a ride request from a passenger; obtaining an errand request from the passenger, wherein the errand request comprises performing an activity at a third location prior to pickup of the passenger at the first location; planning a route comprising the third l...