US Patent Issued to WAYMO on Feb. 4 for "Pickup and drop off zones for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,471, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pickup and drop off zones for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Jennifer Arden (Tiburon, Calif.), Brian Douglas Cullinane (Palo Alto, Calif.), Min Li Chan (San Francisco) and Renaud-Roland Hubert (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing information about a vehicle dispatched to pick up the user. In one example, a request for the vehicle to stop at a particular location is sent. In response, information identifying a current location of the vehicle is received. A map is generated. The map includes a first ma...