US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 16 for "Multi-modal directions with a ride service segment in a navigation application" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,416, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-modal directions with a ride service segment in a navigation application" was invented by Scott Ogden (Chippendale, Australia), Jon Ovrebo Dubielzyk (Sydney) and Izaak Rubin (Pyrmont, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide ride services within a mapping application in a client computing device without directing the user to a separate ride service application, the mapping application invokes one or several ride service APIs to access ride service data from various ride service providers. For example, the mapping application receives a req...