US Patent Issued to WAYMO on May 12 for "Vehicle with free-space optical link for log data uploading" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,374, issued on May 12, was assigned to WAYMO LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Vehicle with free-space optical link for log data uploading" was invented by Michael Sleator (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a system that includes a self-driving system for operating a vehicle autonomously, one or more optical transmitters mounted on the vehicle, and one or more computing devices in communication with the self-driving system and the one or more optical transmitters. The one or more computing devices are configured to operate the self-driving system to cause the vehicle to approach a designated location...