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Roof pod housing

Granted 9 Dec 2025 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Waymo LLC · originally Alphabet Inc.

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Inventors: Albert Shane, Joshua Newby, YooJung Ahn · Examiner: Antoine Duval Davis · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/947,696
filed 17 Jun 2024
Publication
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US D1104794
granted 9 Dec 2025

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of the claimed design for a roof pod housing;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken lines showing the remainder of the roof pod housing depict environmental structure and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D10/70D12/190

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Examiner
Antoine Duval Davis
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