ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,387, issued on April 14.

"Sawtooth station, bidirectional sawtooth platform, car tether, and elevated autonomous people mover system" was invented by Karsten Baltzer (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sawtooth station comprising a passenger waiting area; an autonomous vehicle area sized to allow autonomous vehicles to simultaneously travel in opposite directions of travel and turn around; and one or more sawtooth berths separating the passenger waiting area from the autonomous vehicle area, whereby autonomous vehicles traveling in opposite directions use the one or more sawtooth berths and the autonomous vehicles furthest f...