ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,015, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DOORDASH INC. (San Francisco).
"System and method for predicted pins" was invented by William Chon (New York), Michelle Ma (San Mateo, Calif.), Aniket Patil (Milpitas, Calif.) and Li Peng (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for determining and updating locations in databases for providing to transport user devices to facilitate picking up (retrieving) an item and delivery. Location points (e.g., for retrieval or delivery) can be measured by transporter devices when an item is retrieved, and a central value can be determined from the measured location points....