US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 11 for "Enabling content playing in autonomous vehicles of a transportation service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,436, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enabling content playing in autonomous vehicles of a transportation service" was invented by Matthew Corey Hall (Cupertino, Calif.), Maria Moon (Mountain View, Calif.), Orlee Smith (San Francisco), Erik Wolsheimer (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kyle Bechtel (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to enabling playing of content at an autonomous vehicle. For example, a request to transport a user on a trip may be received. The autonomous vehicle may be assigned to the trip. Whether the user has enabled a content feature m...