US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on June 2 for "Penalizing difficult immediate maneuvers in routing cost functions" (California, Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,715, issued on June 2, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Penalizing difficult immediate maneuvers in routing cost functions" was invented by Rifat Berk (San Francisco), Joseph Kelly Barker (Portland, Ore.), Pranav Deepak Agrawal (Seattle), Vineet Khosla (Pacifica, Calif.) and Nishanth Mohan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation management system generates routing guidance from an origin location to a destination location by modifying edge weights in a graph of a geographic location to penalize difficult immediate maneuvers. Responsive to receiving a routing request, the system identi...