US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Predicting user state using machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,101, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Predicting user state using machine learning" was invented by Michael O'Herlihy (San Francisco), Rafiq Raziuddin Merchant (San Francisco), Nirveek De (San Bruno, Calif.) and Jordan Allen Buettner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system coordinates services between users and providers. The system trains a computer model to predict a user state of a user using data about past services. The prediction is based on data associated with a request submitted by a user. Request data can include current data about the user's behavior and informatio...