US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on April 8 for "Rideshare service fleet optimization using vehicle sensor data" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,841, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Rideshare service fleet optimization using vehicle sensor data" was invented by Kunal Mehta (San Francisco), Nikola Noxon (San Francisco), Devina Jain (San Francisco), Curt Patrick Harrington (Philadelphia), Kelan Fitzgerald Stoy (Albany, Calif.), Edward Henry Forscher (Oakland, Calif.) and Michael John Mehallow (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described and includes acquiring sensor data produced by sensors of a plurality of vehicles traversing an area including a location of a user, wherein the vehicles traversing the area comp...