US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 18 for "Pick-up and drop-off signals for managing double parking obstruction" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,987, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pick-up and drop-off signals for managing double parking obstruction" was invented by Daniella Gutlansky (San Francisco), Mishika Vora (Hayward, Calif.), Xu Dong (Mountain View, Calif.), Trang Uyen Thien Tran (Arlington, Texas), Yu Zheng (Milpitas, Calif.) and Amir Takhmar (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology involves pick-up and drop-off techniques for autonomous vehicles. Pullover selection options are evaluated by considering road user inconvenience and dynamic changes to such inconvenience. In response, a change in vehicle operation is m...