ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,130, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Arranging tour trips using autonomous vehicles" was invented by Lauren Schwendimann (Burlingame, Calif.), Kevin Malta (San Francisco), Victor Chan (Mountain View, Calif.), Kyle Bechtel (San Mateo, Calif.), Philip Moltmann (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Reed Morse (Millbrae, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for arranging tour trips. For instance, a request identifying a pickup location for a tour trip may be received from a client computing device. A set of tours may be selected from a plurality of pre-stored tours based on th...