US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 1 for "Advanced trip planning for autonomous vehicle services" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,882, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Advanced trip planning for autonomous vehicle services" was invented by Ben Qingzhou Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Salil Pandit (Mountain View, Calif.), Clement Wright (San Francisco), Nirmal Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Saksiri Tanphaichitr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mishika Vora (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for advanced trip planning for an autonomous vehicle service. For instance, an example method may include determining a potential pickup location for a user, determining a set of potential destination locations ...