ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,824, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Dynamic pickup point re-ranking system" was invented by Michael Charles Albada (San Francisco), Miles Lucas Detrixhe (San Francisco), Daniel Patrick Iland (Oakland, Calif.) and Saebra Lynn Waterstraut (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamically re-ranking a pickup point are provided. The system receives a request for transportation service from a device of a rider that includes a selected pickup point. In response, the system establishes the transportation service including assigning a driver. Based on detecting that t...