US Patent Issued to VIA TRANSPORTATION on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for managing ridesharing vehicles" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,353, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VIA TRANSPORTATION INC. (New York).

"Systems and methods for managing ridesharing vehicles" was invented by Daniel Ramot (New York), Oren Shoval (Jerusalem), Shmulik Marcovitch (Kfar Saba, Israel), Yaron Rakah (Givatayim, Israel) and Udi Eylat (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for enabling varied ridesharing services is provided. The system may include: a communications interface; a memory for storing accounts of the users including a restriction associated with a user, the restriction including limiting a distance from a starting point to a pick-up location and limiting a...