US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Feb. 10 for "System and method for facilitating a transport service for drivers and users of a geographic region" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,954, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for facilitating a transport service for drivers and users of a geographic region" was invented by Garrett Camp (San Francisco), Oscar Salazar (San Francisco) and Travis Cordell Kalanick (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides a set of data to a user application on a computing device of a user, the set of data being used by the mobile computing device to display a map indicating the current location of the mobile computing device on the map, an estimated arrival time for a vehicle to rendezvous with the user, and...