ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,326, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Inferring accurate locations" was invented by Mir Shahrouz Takyar (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Yuh-Hsien Wang (San Francisco), Nina Pakhomova (San Mateo, Calif.), Xiaowei Li (San Carlos, Calif.), Akash Parikh (San Francisco) and Bozhena Bidyuk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein describe a network system for generating inferred accurate locations. The systems and methods receive a transportation trip request from a first computing device that includes a target address, access a first plurality of historical location data an...