ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,292, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Communications for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Salil Pandit (Mountain View, Calif.), Julien Mercay (Redwood City, Calif.) and Clement Wright (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of facilitating communications from an autonomous vehicle to a user. For instance, a method may include, while attempting to pick up the user and prior to the user entering an vehicle, inputting a current location of the vehicle and map information into a model in order to identify a type of communication action for communic...