ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,907, issued on July 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Augmented reality display to preserve user privacy" was invented by Dan Fredinburg (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brian Kemler (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the application relate to protecting the privacy of a user of a dispatching service for driverless vehicles. For example, a client computing device may send a request for a vehicle, the request identifying a location of the client computing device. Location information identifying a current location of a vehicle dispatched to the location of the client computing device is received in...