US Patent Issued to UBER TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 8 for "Freight network system using modularized trailers" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,099, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Francisco).

"Freight network system using modularized trailers" was invented by Maxwell MacGavin Pike (San Francisco), William Driegert (Tiburon, Calif.), Robert Gestie Chappuis (Chicago), Eric Berdinis (San Francisco), Anne Canfield Kadavy (San Francisco) and Lior Ron (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system receives a freight request from a shipper, where the freight request specifies a destination for a load of the shipper. The computer system implements a selection process to select a freight operator to haul a corresponding trailer of ...