US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on May 20 for "Dynamically determining origin and destination locations for a network system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,996, issued on May 20, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamically determining origin and destination locations for a network system" was invented by Qi Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Casey Lawler (El Cerrito, Calif.), Linfeng Shi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qing Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Miao Yu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system dynamically determines a route, including start and end points, for vehicles in a transportation network. The transportation network receives a service request from a user of the transportation network including an origin location for the trip and a destination ...