ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,299, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Nathaniel Fairfield (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua Seth Herbach (San Francisco), Christopher Kennedy Ludwick (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Paul McNaughton (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Renaud-Roland Hubert (Gilroy, Calif.), Jennifer Arden (Tiburon, Calif.) and Min Li Chan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to arranging a pickup between a driverless vehicle and a passenger. For instance, dispatch instructions dispatching the vehicle to a predetermined pi...