US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Route selection using machine-learned safety model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,727, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Route selection using machine-learned safety model" was invented by Harish Mayur Srinivasan (Long Beach, Calif.), Robert Dominic Kyle (San Francisco), Abbas Hooshmand Salemian (El Cerrito, Calif.), Yanwei Zhang (San Francisco) and Patrick Tsung-Ping Muh (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of configuring and using a machine-learned safety risk model to predict a corresponding risk of vehicular collision for different candidate routes are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system obtains accident dat...