ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,645, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Multi-modal transportation service planning and fulfillment" was invented by Kevin Tian (San Francisco), Adam Warmoth (San Francisco), Raphael Max Lurie (San Francisco), Hasrat Godil (Millbrae, Calif.) and Nikhil Goel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for real-time planning and fulfillment of multi-modal transportation services in a multi-modal ride sharing network. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a computing system that creates an end-to-end multi-modal itinera...