US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Dec. 16 for "Multimodal mobility facilitating seamless ridership with single ticket" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,390, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Multimodal mobility facilitating seamless ridership with single ticket" was invented by Prasun Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy (Mountain View, Calif.), Rahul Vishwakarma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ramyar Saeedi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ravigopal Vennelakanti (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides seamless journey experience for passenger in multimodal mobility travel using a single ticket for different trip sections and when multimodal operators provide passenger proof-of-transit, smart contracts enable automated fare d...