ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,932, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automatically requesting vehicles" was invented by Anne Aula (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Douglas Cullinane (Palo Alto, Calif.), Daniel Jules Switkin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jennifer Arden (Tiburon, Calif.) and Renaud-Roland Hubert (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering a passenger to a destination autonomously. The vehicle includes one or more computing devices that receive a request for a vehicle from a client computing device. The request identifies a first location. The one or mo...