ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,924, issued on March 25, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic scheduling system for service requests" was invented by Gang Cheng (San Francisco), Jason Chionh (San Francisco), Jonathan Kantrowitz (San Francisco), Oren Freiberg (San Francisco), Juncao Li (San Francisco) and Jie Zhang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive user data from a computing device of a user. Based on the user data, the system can determine that the user will utilize a transport service to arrive at a destination location at a specified time. Prior to the specified time, the system can monitor transport s...