US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on April 15 for "Autonomous vehicle control using service pools across different service entities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,513, issued on April 15, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Autonomous vehicle control using service pools across different service entities" was invented by Brent Goldman (San Francisco), Leigh Hagestad (San Francisco) and Matthew James Way (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle and the service selection for an autonomous vehicle are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain data indicative of a first vehicle service assignment for an autonomous vehicle. The first vehicle service assignment can be associated with a first se...