US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 3 for "Identifying unassigned passengers for autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,008, issued on March 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Identifying unassigned passengers for autonomous vehicles" was invented by John Wesley Dyer (Los Altos, Calif.), Luis Torres (San Francisco), Yu-Hsin Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michael Epstein (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods for confirming the identity of a passenger and changing destination of a vehicle. This may include receiving dispatching instructions to pick up a first passenger at a pickup location and to drop off the first passenger at a first destination as well as authenticatio...