US Patent Issued on Oct. 28 for "Method and a system for assigning vehicles to taxi orders" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,378, issued on Oct. 28.

"Method and a system for assigning vehicles to taxi orders" was invented by Olga Gnilova (Reutov, Russia), Aleksandr Tsarkov (Moscow) and Sergey Vorontsov (Kaliningrad, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a server for assigning vehicles to taxi orders are provided. The method comprises: receiving an indication of a plurality of taxi orders in a given area; identifying a set of candidate vehicles for assigning among the plurality of taxi orders; generating, in the set of candidate vehicles, an indication of a model candidate vehicle, which is associated with a threshold ETA for the given taxi ord...