US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Visual search system for finding trip destination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,975, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Visual search system for finding trip destination" was invented by Karim Fateem (Belmont, Calif.), Yu Zhang (San Francisco) and Brandon Iles (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improving a search process by providing a visual guided search experience is provided. A networked system determines a location of a user device. A user interface (UI) is presented illustrating a map at a first level view of an area based on the location. The networked system receives, via the UI, a first touch input indicating a zoom selection. In ...