US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 29 for "Inferring pickup or drop-off locations using curated data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,063, issued on July 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Inferring pickup or drop-off locations using curated data" was invented by Cameron Blume (San Francisco) and Gaurav Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology provide a method including receiving a request for a user to be picked up or dropped off by an autonomous vehicle, in which the request identifying a location, and determining a land parcel containing the identified location. The method also includes identifying a set of features that are within a selected distance from the identified location, filtering the set ...