ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,872, issued on April 22, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Real-time carpool coordinating system" was invented by Richard T. Lord (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Robert W. Lord (Seattle), Nathan P. Myhrvold (Medina, Wash.) and Clarence T. Tegreene (Mercer Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system determines that a transportation vehicle is transporting a first end user to a first destination location. Based on a set of factors, the system determines that a driver of the transportation vehicle is able to travel to a rendezvous location to rendezvous with a second end user while the transportation vehic...