ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,272, issued on June 23, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Distributed vehicle route planning" was invented by Reed Berney Nightingale (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for controlling and/or influencing the routes driven by vehicles in a fleet of vehicles managed by a fleet routing system. The fleet routing system may determine route data for vehicles to perform requested driving trips based on the current and previous driving trips performed by the fleet. For example, the fleet routing system may evaluate the current driving trips being performed by the fleet to determine modified desti...