ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,095, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).
"Approaches for encoding environmental information" was invented by Lina Dong (San Francisco), Weiyi Hou (Mountain View, Calif.), Somesh Khandelwal (San Jose, Calif.), Ivan Kirigin (Redwood City, Calif.), Shaojing Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Ying Liu (Los Altos, Calif.), David Tse-Zhou Lu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Robert Charles Kyle Pinkerton (Redwood City, Calif.), Vinay Shet (Fremont, Calif.) and Shaohui Sun (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can access a plurality of schema-based encodings providi...