US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on July 29 for "Route coordination and navigation based on user proximity to points of interest" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,361, issued on July 29, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Route coordination and navigation based on user proximity to points of interest" was invented by Yuri Choi (San Francisco) and Guangqiang Zhang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives sensor data from computing devices of passengers riding in an autonomous vehicle (AV). Based on the sensor data, the system can determine a position of each of the passengers within the AV. The system determines a next passenger to be picked up by the AV. Based at least in part on the position of each of the passengers within the AV, the system can (...