ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,192, issued on May 13, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Proximity alert system" was invented by Yuri Choi (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proximity alert system tracks geographic locations of riders and drivers using global navigation satellite system receivers in their mobile devices or in a device such as a beacon or dashcam. The proximity alert system compares the location data received from the riders' and drivers' devices and determines whether a service-requesting user is within a threshold distance of one of the driver devices that does not belong to the driver assigned to provide transp...