ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,427, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Elevation-aware hotspot generation system" was invented by Michael Charles Albada (San Francisco), Vivek Sankaravadivel (Fremont, Calif.) and Saebra Lynn Waterstraut (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments are directed to systems and methods for generating and providing elevation-aware hotspots. In example embodiments, a network system detects an initiation of a request for a transportation service at a client device of a user and receives an indication of a location of the client device and corresponding signal strengths associat...