US Patent Issued to The City and County of San Francisco on Oct. 21 for "Using geofence-based vehicle location estimation to improve queuing of vehicles at predetermined locations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,625, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco).

"Using geofence-based vehicle location estimation to improve queuing of vehicles at predetermined locations" was invented by Humphrey Loe (San Francisco), David Morales (San Francisco), Angus Davol (San Francisco), Kimberly Villalobos (San Francisco), Aayush Bhandari (San Francisco) and Sanjay Mehta (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Location-based virtual queuing of vehicles is described. A request to join a virtual queue may be received from a user application. In response to receiving the request, the server may determine, usin...