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![A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in Downtown Dallas in June 2024, could potentially benefit from U.S. Patent No. 12062290. Recently granted to GM Cruise Holdings and invented by Dallas’s Clifton Trigg Hutchinson, the patent describes a system for dynamically dispatching autonomous vehicles. This technology enables real-time route adjustments based on user location updates, enhancing urban transport efficiency. [Photo: Cruise]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cruise-robotaxi_Dallas-970x464-1-940x436.jpg)
A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in Downtown Dallas in June 2024, could potentially benefit from U.S. Patent No. 12062290. Recently granted to GM Cruise Holdings and invented by Dallas’s Clifton Trigg Hutchinson, the patent describes a system for dynamically dispatching autonomous vehicles. This technology enables real-time route adjustments based on user location updates, enhancing urban transport efficiency. [Photo: Cruise]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- • Amazon's security event analysis and remediation system
- • Automation Tech's modular cooking appliance having an auto-loading microwave oven
- • Bee Cups' insect watering station
- • Digital Seat Media's wagering platforms and access derived from machine-readable codes
- • Icy Breeze's systems and methods for a portable multi-function air conditioner
- • LASH OPCO's lash band for artificial lashes
- • o9 Solutions' unstructured data processing in plan modeling
- • Splunk's graphical user interface for presentation of network security risk and threat information
- • State Farm's tracking and reporting changes in data records
- • Toyota's off-grid energy transfer
- • USAA's credit card with location tracking device
GM’s Cruise Robotaxis Return to Dallas Streets for Testing, Driverless Taxi Service To Resume ‘Later’
by David Seeley | Jul 24, 2024
After a months-long pause following a pedestrian collision in San Francisco last October, Cruise robotaxis are being tested once again in Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix—without paying customers and with a "safety driver" in the car, the New York Times reports.
