US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Computing system configuring destination accelerators based on usage patterns of users of a transport service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,226, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Computing system configuring destination accelerators based on usage patterns of users of a transport service" was invented by Yuhki Yamashita (San Francisco), Didier Patrick Hilhorst (San Francisco), Bryant Jow (San Francisco) and Peter Ng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system can detect the launch of a rider application on computing devices of users of a transport service. The computing system can receive location data indicating the current location of each user, and determine a usage pattern for each user based on historic...