Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adjustable automatic window tinting for autonomous vehicles
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Application No.: US17089969Application Date: 2020-11-05
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Publication No.: US11654935B2Publication Date: 2023-05-23
- Inventor: Kenneth Ramon Ferguson , Samuel Harrison Glidden , Maximilian Gerrit Euchenhofer , Jeffrey Brandon , Michael Frank Schmidt
- Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
- Current Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Akona IP
- Main IPC: B60W30/00
- IPC: B60W30/00 ; B60W60/00 ; B60J1/02 ; B60J1/08 ; B60J1/18 ; B60J3/04 ; G01C21/34 ; G02F1/163 ; G05B19/4155 ; G06Q50/30 ; G02F1/1334 ; G02F1/137

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method comprising receiving a rideshare request from a user, the rideshare request including a destination; transporting the passenger to the destination using an autonomous vehicle (AV) having a plurality of windows comprising electrically switchable smart glass; during the transporting, monitoring a metric related to arrival of the AV at the destination; and untinting the windows when the monitored metric has a prescribed relationship to a threshold value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220135073A1 ADJUSTABLE AUTOMATIC WINDOW TINTING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2022-05-05
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