ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,279, issued on July 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Internal cleaning for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Roman Manka (Brentwood, Calif.), Min Wang (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Timothy Willis (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Alexander Shand (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate cleaning systems for cleaning cabin air and interior surfaces of a vehicle. For instance, a cleaning system may include a surface cleaning device including a UVC light source. In addition, a request for confirmation that the vehicle may not be occupied may be sent to a remote computing device. ...