ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,069, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).
"Autonomous vehicle user assignment management" was invented by Benjamin Patrick Dennis (San Francisco) and Reed Sierra Horton (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein describe an autonomous vehicle user assignment management system for improving fleet vehicle utilization. The method comprises receiving a first transportation service request from a user device, matching a first autonomous vehicle to fulfill the request, and displaying a permission request for autonomous transportation services on the user device. Upon obtai...