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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2020
Applicant:

Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Michael Voznesensky, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/343 (2013.01); G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); G01C 21/3697 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01); G06Q 2240/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Autonomous vehicles are requested to execute a route from an origin location to a destination location. The route specifies one or more waypoints between the origin location and the destination location, with the autonomous vehicle requested to transit from the origin location to the destination location via the waypoints. Some autonomous vehicles vary their route and do not necessarily visit each of the specified waypoints along the route. To improve adherence to the waypoints specified in the route, an arranger assigns a weight to each of the waypoints. The weight is used to score the vehicle's performance of the route based at least in part on whether the vehicle visited each of the waypoints and the weight associated with each of the waypoints. The score is used to control dispatch of additional service requests to the autonomous vehicle or other autonomous vehicles operated by the same operator or manufacturer.


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