US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Real-time service provider progress monitoring" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,003, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Real-time service provider progress monitoring" was invented by Ashley Quitoriano (San Francisco), Kevin Spieser (San Francisco), Parijat Mazumdar (San Francisco), Rei Chiang (San Francisco), Shicong Meng (San Francisco) and Zhi Li (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive a request for transport from a computing device of a user and select a service provider to provide transport for the user to a destination location. The system can receive location data from the computing device of the service provider. After the service provid...