ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,659, issued on June 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Non-passenger requests for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Joshua Seth Herbach (San Francisco), Philip Nemec (San Jose, Calif.) and Peter Colijn (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a system that includes a memory storing a queue for arranging tasks, a plurality of self-driving systems for controlling an autonomous vehicle, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may receive a non-passenger task request with a priority level of the non-passenger task request. When the non-passenger task request ...