US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on July 15 for "Method for autonomous vehicle resource allocation and scheduling" (New York, California, Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,350, issued on July 15, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Method for autonomous vehicle resource allocation and scheduling" was invented by Parul Kothari (New York), Noe Brito (Cupertino, Calif.), Juanqui Yu (New York), Peter Hoang (Houston), Han Nguyen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vicente Quinones (Hialeah, Fla.) and Karson Stone (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses system, method, and computer program product embodiments for preparing a fleet of vehicles for service. For example, the method includes receiving: a set of mission types, a set of mission requests, vehic...