ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,056, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Autonomous vehicle socialization" was invented by Matthew Douglas Helfgott (San Francisco), Jennifer Devar McKnew (Petaluma, Calif.), Max Eunice (San Francisco), Spencer Lee James (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Alexander Willem Gerrese (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing opportunities for interactions and communication between vehicles and passengers. In particular, a vehicle socialization platform is provided for facilitating a wide range of social and utilitarian exchanges between vehicles and their occupants, t...