ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,770, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Pickup assistance system" was invented by Anjini Shukla (Los Altos, Calif.), Pranit Arora (San Francisco), Ashutosh Joshi (Fremont, Calif.), Miles Lucas Detrixhe (San Francisco) and Ruofei Wang (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments are directed to systems and methods for providing pickup point assistance. In example embodiments, a network system uses data received from one or more sensors to detect a location of a user that is requesting a transportation service. The network system also tracks, a driver along a route to ...