US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 25 for "Multiple destination trips for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,727, issued on March 25, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multiple destination trips for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Cristi Landy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Julien Mercay (Redwood City, Calif.), Saksiri Tanphaichitr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Laurens Andreas Feenstra (San Francisco) and Salil Pandit (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of managing a fleet of autonomous vehicles providing trip services. The method includes receiving information identifying an intermediate destination and a final destination for a trip. In this example, the intermediate dest...