ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,353, issued on April 7, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Ridesharing fleet management" was invented by Gregory D. Hansen (San Antonio), Will K. Maney (San Antonio) and William P. Culbertson II (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a fleet of shared autonomous vehicles may comprise a plurality of specialized sub-systems. The sub-systems may coordinate to service requested rides using the vehicles. The system may comprise a reservation system configured to receive a request for a ride from a user device. The system may comprise a coordination system configured to ...