ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,058, issued on May 27, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Targeted driving for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Xiaoyue Zhao (Saratoga, Calif.), Henning Hohnhold (San Francisco), Xiang Gao (Mountain View, Calif.), Ajay Joshi (Mountain View, Calif.), Vishay Nihalani (San Francisco), Katharine Patterson (San Francisco) and Joseph Lee (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of providing a destination to an autonomous vehicle in order to enable the autonomous vehicle to collect data according to a targeted driving goal. For instance, a current location of an auton...