ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,960, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Audible passenger announcements for autonomous vehicle services" was invented by Maria Moon (Mountain View, Calif.), Julien Charles Mercay (Redwood City, Calif.), Kyle Bechtel (San Mateo, Calif.), Ryan Powell (San Francisco) and Clement Wright (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology relate to assisting a passenger in an autonomous vehicle without a driver. For instance, after a door of the vehicle is opened, a predetermined period of time may be waited by processors of computing devices of the vehicle. After waiting the predete...