US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on July 7 for "Mobile search based on predicted location" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,676, issued on July 7, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mobile search based on predicted location" was invented by Alice Jane Bernheim Brush (Redmond, Wash.), John Charles Krumm (Redmond, Wash.), Shahriyar Amini (Waltham, Mass.), Amy Karlson (Bellevue, Wash.), Jaime Teevan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving one or more search terms at a mobile computing device while the mobile computing device is located at a particular location. A search query that includes the one or more search terms and a location history of th...