ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,383, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zum Services Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Route stacking in a fleet routing system" was invented by Abhishek Garg (Redwood City, Calif.), Rohit Jain (Redwood City, Calif.), Sidi Liu (Redwood City, Calif.), Andrew Mormysh (Redwood City, Calif.), Gustavo Ocasio (Redwood City, Calif.) and Melissa Shiu (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include a device associated with a user. The device may identify to a server computer a route to be reassigned from a first vehicle to a second vehicle among a fleet of vehicles. The server device may include an artificial intell...