ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,767, issued on April 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Driveway maneuvers for autonomous vehicles" was invented by John Wesley Dyer (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Epstein (Danville, Calif.) and Jonathan Lee Pedersen (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling an autonomous vehicle to enter a driveway. As an example, an instruction to pickup or drop off a passenger at a location may be received. It may be determined that the vehicle is arriving in a lane on an opposite side of a street as the location, the lane having a traffic direction opposite to a traff...