ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,687, issued on June 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Queueing into pickup and drop-off locations" was invented by John Wesley Dyer (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael Epstein (Danville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling an autonomous vehicle to respond to queuing behaviors at pickup or drop-off locations. As an example, a request to pick up or drop off a passenger at a location may be received. The location may be determined to likely have a queue for picking up and dropping off passengers. Based on sensor data received from a perception system, whether a qu...