ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,427, issued on May 6, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Micro-mobility vehicle status compliance determination" was invented by Alan Hugh Wells (Sausalito, Calif.), Gregory Mark Mahowald (Broomfield, Colo.), Lucie Zikova (San Francisco) and Aaron Matthew Rogan (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting non-compliant use of a micro-mobility vehicle, for example, based on parking the micro-mobility vehicle outside of a designated area. In an embodiment, a processor detects that a micro-mobility vehicle shared by a plurality of users has transitioned f...