ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,732, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Routing graph management in autonomous vehicle routing" was invented by Michael Voznesensky (San Francisco), Adam Panzica (Pittsburgh), Brent Goldman (San Francisco), Bryan John Nagy (Allison Park, Pa.), Mark Yen (San Francisco) and Adrian Rechy Romero (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to routing autonomous vehicles. A processor unit accesses first routing graph modification data and second routing graph modification data. The first routing graph modification data based at least in part on first vehicle capability d...