ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,288, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Depot behaviors for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Son-Ca Nguyen (Mountain View, Calif.), Craig Robinson (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jakob Robert Zwiener (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for depot behaviors for autonomous vehicles. For instance, a signal to control an autonomous vehicle to a depot area may be received from a server computing device. A prioritized list of staging areas within the depot area may be identified. Each staging area of the prioritized list of staging areas enables the vehicle to obs...