US Patent Issued to WAYMO on Oct. 7 for "Managing and tracking scouting tasks using autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,650, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing and tracking scouting tasks using autonomous vehicles" was invented by Katharine Patterson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Laurens Andreas Feenstra (San Francisco), Peter Colijn (San Francisco) and Austin Daniel Abrams (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for managing and tracking scouting tasks to obtain map information using a fleet of autonomous vehicles. For instance, the method includes defining a scouting quest to obtain the map information. The scouting quest includes a plurality of objectives. Each objective is associated...