US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN GROUP on Feb. 17 for "Arrival predictions based on destination specific model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,731, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Arrival predictions based on destination specific model" was invented by Jaron Waldman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Seejo Pylappan (Cupertino, Calif.), Denis Laprise (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Harry Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides accurate arrival alerts to a destination. In some embodiments the disclosed technology utilizes a destination specific model that can take into account location specific factors such as traffic around the destination, best approaches to the destination, other likely intermediate stops on the way...