US Patent Issued to Volkswagen Group of America Investments on May 13 for "System and method for ride hailing an autonomous vehicle by a third party" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,605, issued on May 13, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"System and method for ride hailing an autonomous vehicle by a third party" was invented by Danson Evan Lu Garcia (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for ride hailing an autonomous vehicle by a third party. For example, the method includes: receiving, from a user device associated with a user account of a user for an autonomous vehicle service, (i) a request to add a rider profile associated with a rider other than the user to the user account and (ii) r...