US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on March 18 for "Optimizing group requests for a network-based service" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,966, issued on March 18, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optimizing group requests for a network-based service" was invented by Matthew Sweeney (San Francisco), Logan Rockmore (Pittsburgh) and Lisa Weitekamp (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system can receive a request data corresponding to a group request for service for multiple users. The request data can indicate a common destination or start location for the multiple users. The system transmits a first set of data to a first user device of the first user to cause the first user device to prompt the first user to input a start or dest...