US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 24 for "Determining the pick-up/drop-off state of a mass transit vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,481, issued on March 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining the pick-up/drop-off state of a mass transit vehicle" was invented by Kevin Sheu (San Jose, Calif.), Qiurui He (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aishwarya Parasuram (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Selina Pan (Cupertino, Calif.), David Lee (San Carlos, Calif.), Qichi Yang (Los Altos, Calif.), Kishore Kollipara (Pacifica, Calif.), Nayun Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Maya Kabkab (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining a passenger pick-up/drop-off (PUDO) state of a mass transit vehicle by an autonomous vehicle (AV) are disclos...