ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,266, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Augmented reality wayfinding" was invented by Bruce Mai (Sacramento, Calif.), Maria Moon (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Willing (Mountain View, Calif.), Peter Crandall (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Kleiser (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kevin Malta (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology uses augmented reality (AR) elements for enhanced wayfinding with autonomous vehicle pickups and drop-offs. The approach includes generating, for presentation in a first region of a client device UI, trip information regarding a trip. Map information assoc...