Patent ID: 11900819
Assignee: JOBY AERO, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer program code that is executable by one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
accessing, over one or more networks, data defining a plurality of requests for transportation services for respective riders, origins, and destinations;
computing assignments of selected ones of the plurality of requests to trip itineraries that include transportation, at least in part, by a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, each of the selected requests being associated with data indicative of a threshold time to arrive at the corresponding destination;
based at least partly on there being unassigned capacity on the VIOL aircraft, accessing demand data associated with the transportation services and the threshold times;
based at least in part on the demand data and the threshold times, computing a VTOL-hold value predictive of whether another request will be received for an additional rider and the additional rider will board the VTOL aircraft within a time period such that each of the riders of selected requests will arrive at their respective destinations prior to the respective threshold times;
computing that the VTOL aircraft should wait based on the VTOL-hold value exceeding a likelihood threshold; and
after the VTOL aircraft waits in response to the VTOL-hold value, controlling the VTOL aircraft, to take-off.