ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,541, issued on May 20, was assigned to Pull Up Transportation Solutions LLC (Minneapolis).

"Ride share system requiring approvals" was invented by Kimberly Feyth Walker (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for a ride share system requiring approvals are described herein. A first user requests a rideshare which is processed by a remote computer resource which gets approval from a second user. The remote computer resource then pairs a driver with the approved rideshare wherein the driver can accept the rideshare. An authentication code is then generated to verify the identity of the parties...