ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,206, issued on June 30, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Predictive location selection system" was invented by Pan Pan (San Francisco), Jon Petersen (San Francisco), Kevin Su (San Francisco) and Ronak Trivedi (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive location data from a computing device of a requesting user, where the location data indicates a current position of the requesting user. The system can determine a rendezvous location for the requesting user prior to the requesting user transmitting a service request to the network computer system. The system may then transmit data corresp...