US Patent Issued to WAYMO on July 14 for "Modifying a vehicle state based on the presence of a special-purpose vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,365, issued on July 14, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Modifying a vehicle state based on the presence of a special-purpose vehicle" was invented by David I. Ferguson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes receiving user input identifying a travel destination for a first vehicle, determining, by a processor, a first route for the first vehicle to follow, and configuring the first vehicle to follow the first route. The method further includes obtaining a model for a second vehicle that shares a road with the first vehicle and comparing model to a pre-determined template fo...