US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Forecasting requests based on context data for a network-based service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,035, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Forecasting requests based on context data for a network-based service" was invented by Emre Demiralp (San Francisco), John Mark Nickels (San Francisco), Eoin O'Mahony (San Francisco), Danhua Guo (San Francisco), Lior Seeman (San Francisco), Chaoxu Tong (San Francisco), Melissa Dalis (San Francisco), Hyung Jin Kim (San Francisco), En Yu (San Francisco) and Xiangyu Sun (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system can communicate with user and provider devices to facilitate the provision of a network-based service. The network system can id...