US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for matching an autonomous vehicle to a rider" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,567, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for matching an autonomous vehicle to a rider" was invented by Molly Castle Nix (San Francisco), Sean Chin (San Francisco), Eric J. Hanson (San Francisco), Richard Brian Donnelly (Pittsburgh) and Dennis Zhao (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to matching an available vehicle to a rider requesting a service. In one example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a service request from a rider. The method further include...