US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 22 for "Inconvenience for passenger pickups and drop offs for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,461, issued on July 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Inconvenience for passenger pickups and drop offs for autonomous vehicles" was invented by John Wesley Dyer (Mountain View, Calif.), Leonid Yeykelis (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Epstein (Danville, Calif.) and Salil Pandit (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating map data. For instance, data generated by a perception system of a vehicle may be received. This data corresponds to a plurality of observations including observed positions of a passenger of the vehicle as the passenger approached the ve...