US Patent Issued to Lyft on April 8 for "Generating and transmitting autonomous vehicle prepositioning instructions to improve network coverage" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,191, issued on April 8, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating and transmitting autonomous vehicle prepositioning instructions to improve network coverage" was invented by Renaud Louis Jean-Paul de Peretti (San Francisco), Aseem Garg (Belmont, Calif.), Philippe Charles Amilcar Mizrahi (San Francisco), Ramon Dario Iglesias (San Francisco), Hao Yi Ong (San Francisco), Tejinder Singh Aulakh (Indianapolis) and Timothy Tay Chao (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 generating and transmitting autonomous vehicle prepos...