US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Jan. 20 for "User control of alternate routes" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,569, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"User control of alternate routes" was invented by Shailendra Ramineni Rao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wesley KaiJie Leung (San Francisco), Jayant Balasubramanian Sai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kumar Chowdhary Veeravalli Naveen (Castro Valley, Calif.), Janice Jieun Suh (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Paweena Attayadmawittaya (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing user control of alternate routes are provided. In example embodiments, a networked system receives a ride request from a user that indicates a drop-off location. The networke...