US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 3 for "Autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,936, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous vehicles" was invented by Philip Nemec (San Jose, Calif.), Anne Kristiina Aula (Mountain View, Calif.), David Tse-Zhou Lu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Brian Douglas Cullinane (Palo Alto, Calif.), Calvin Karl Johnson (San Francisco), Albert Shane (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher Kennedy Ludwick (Los Altos, Calif.) and YooJung Ahn (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering a passenger to a destination autonomously. The vehicle includes one or more computing devices and a set of us...