ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,029, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Location determination based on historical service data" was invented by Neil Fernandes (San Francisco), Shivendra Pratap Singh (Redwood City, Calif.), Krishna Aditya Gabbita (San Mateo, Calif.) and Aditya Somani (Ajmer, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a service request sent from a computing device of a user, which identifies a service to be provided. The system then identifies potential locations based on the service request and historical data. These locations are assessed based on predetermined criteria, including an amount of s...