ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,619, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing interfaces with scheduled transportation options to intelligently generate transportation groups" was invented by Adriel Samuel Frederick (Berkeley, Calif.), Simon Jack Jenkins (San Francisco), Ryan Lok Yan Ma (San Francisco), Keshav Puranmalka (Seattle), Pratik Hirachand Shah (San Francisco), Jessica Kelly T Talbert (San Francisco), Rebecca Lindsay Blum (San Francisco) and Mayank Gulati (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for dynamically matching reques...