US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Determining and providing predetermined location data points to service providers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,885, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Determining and providing predetermined location data points to service providers" was invented by Aditya Sarawgi (San Francisco), Sophia Cui (San Francisco) and Matthew Sweeney (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing a network service is described. A system can provide a map interface for a user that includes a location pin. The system can detect a user input that sets the location pin at a selected pickup location on the map interface. In response to detecting the user input, the system can (i) determine an altern...