ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,630, issued on April 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Salil Pandit (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nirmal Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tacettin Dogacan Guney (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Rawlings (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Laurens Andreas Feenstra (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to arranging a pick up and drop off locations between a driverless vehicle and a passenger. As an example, a method of doing so may include receiving a request for a vehicle from a client computing device, wherein the request identifies a f...