ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,302, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Application monologue for self-driving vehicles" was invented by Salil Pandit (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nirmal Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Renaud-Roland Hubert (Gilroy, Calif.), Maria Moon (Mountain View, Calif.), Lauren Schwendimann (Burlingame, Calif.), Guilherme Villar (San Francisco), Ryan Powell (San Francisco), Peter Crandall (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthew Corey Hall (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology includes communicating the current status of a self-driving vehicle to users, such as passengers within the vehicle and other user...