ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,040, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Shared checklists for onboard assistant" was invented by Christopher Warren (Seattle), MinJie Tong (Issaquah, Wash.), Theresa Foy (San Francisco), Ashley Sams (San Francisco), Soleil Phan (San Francisco), Leah Meyerholtz (San Francisco), David J. Shuckerow (Seattle), Daniel Paul Thengvall (San Francisco), Qingxuan Li (San Mateo, Calif.) and Steven Sturkop (Villeneuve Loubet, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed herein a method of providing customer service, including receiving a customer service request from an autonomous vehicle (AV)...