Patent ID: 11897308
Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 11:
12. A system for autonomous vehicle delivery, comprising:
a plurality of autonomous vehicles each having a respective delivery container, each delivery container having an input line configured to connect the delivery container with at least one of air from the surrounding environment and outside air; and
a remote computing system configured to:
receive a package delivery request including a selected temperature, and
select an autonomous vehicle from the plurality of autonomous vehicles to fulfill the package delivery request,

wherein each of the plurality of autonomous vehicles is configured to:
measure a delivery container temperature of the respective delivery container;
determine external temperatures external to the respective delivery container, including:
determine a surrounding environment air temperature, wherein a surrounding environment is an area adjacent to an exterior of the respective delivery container inside the respective autonomous vehicle,
determine an outside air temperature, wherein outside air is exterior to the respective autonomous vehicle; and

determine that at least one of air from the surrounding environment and outside air can be used to adjust the delivery container temperature closer to the selected temperature;
adjust a delivery container temperature of the respective delivery container to correspond to the selected temperature, wherein adjusting the delivery container temperature includes:
inputting to the delivery container, via the input line at least one of air from the surrounding environment and outside air.