ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,880, issued on May 27, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Service area maps for autonomous vehicles" was invented by David Margines (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tacettin Guney (San Jose, Calif.), Saksiri Tanphaichitr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeffrey Min (Mountain View, Calif.), Laurens Feenstra (San Francisco), Peter Pawlowski (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Dirk Haehnel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology relate to providing service area maps for an autonomous vehicle transportation service having a fleet of vehicles. For instance, each vehicle of the fleet is associated with a polygon correspon...