ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,707, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Vehicle management system" was invented by Scott Poeppel (Pittsburgh), Nicholas G. Letwin (Pittsburgh) and Sean J. Kelly (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and vehicles for taking a vehicle out-of-service are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, data indicative of one or more parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is configured to provide a vehicle service to one or more users of the vehicle service. The ...