ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,822, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Early boarding of passengers in autonomous vehicles" was invented by Philip Nemec (San Jose, Calif.), Renaud-Roland Hubert (Gilroy, Calif.), Joshua Seth Herbach (San Francisco), Min Li Chan (San Francisco), Michael Epstein (Danville, Calif.), Salil Pandit (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Wesley Dyer (Los Altos, Calif.) and Juliet Rothenberg (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to actively looking for an assigned passenger prior to a vehicle 100 reaching a pickup location. For instance, information identifying the pickup location and...