US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Enhancing map data based on points of interest" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,839, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Enhancing map data based on points of interest" was invented by Christopher Moore (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system receives a trip request including a location of the user requesting the trip. The online system identifies buildings or geographies based on the received location and determines location boundaries associated with the identified buildings or geographies. The online system identifies a set of hotspots representing locations that are frequently used for pickup or drop off. The online system additionally identifies...