US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Prediction engine for a network-based service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,033, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Prediction engine for a network-based service" was invented by Shicong Meng (Fremont, Calif.), Noah Harold Shaw (San Francisco), Joshua K. Hellerstein (Palm Beach Gardens, Calif.), Juan Pemberthy (San Francisco), Zhi Li (San Francisco) and Jacob Edison (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system can receive location data from a provider device of a service provider. Using at least the location data in an optimization model, the network system can determine one or more actions for the service provider to optimize one or more metrics. The ...