Uber was granted a patent for predicting autonomous vehicle routes.

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  "company": {
    "name": "Uber",
    "domain": "uber.com"
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    "detail": "In September 2026 Uber patented route-planning technology for transportation services, helping match trip requests with autonomous vehicles based on their capabilities.",
    "summary": "Uber was granted a patent for predicting autonomous vehicle routes.",
    "event_at": "2026-09-29",
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    "source_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12747957",
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    "patent_title": "Autonomous vehicle planned route prediction",
    "patent_number": "US12747957",
    "uspto_assignee": "Uber Technologies, Inc.",
    "patent_abstract": "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for providing transportation services. A service assignment system may receive a transportation service request from a user. The transportation service request may describe a transportation service having a start location and an end location. The service assignment system may select a first autonomous vehicle (AV) of a first AV type and determine a first predicted route for the first AV using vehicle capability data describing the first AV type and first difference data describing a difference between a previous predicted route for a previous AV of the first AV type and a previous planned route received from the previous AV of the first AV type. The service assignment system may receive, from the first AV, a first planned route for executing the transportation service and instruct the first AV to begin executing the transportation service.",
    "precision_class": "structural",
    "invention_explanation": "A system that compares vehicle types and capabilities to predict the best route for an autonomous vehicle assigned to a passenger trip.",
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