ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,995, issued on May 20, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Indoor/outdoor transition points based on satellite signal strength" was invented by Dineshkumar Karuppanna Gounder Ramasamy (San Francisco) and Upamanyu Madhow (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of using satellite signal strength to determine indoor/outdoor transition points for places are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system accesses service data and sensor data for a plurality of requests for a transportation service associated with a place, with the service data comprising pick-up data...