US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on June 23 for "System and method for providing a notification that a mobile device is still in an autonomous vehicle after detecting an arrival at a destination" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,966, issued on June 23, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for providing a notification that a mobile device is still in an autonomous vehicle after detecting an arrival at a destination" was invented by Porter Joseph Zilka (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Under the user's instruction, an autonomous vehicle travels to a selected location. The user chooses a place to arrive at the destination address. After the arrival of the autonomous vehicle, it is determined whether the user's or third party's mobile device is still in the vehicle. If the mobile device is still in the vehicl...