ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,832, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Utilizing throughput rate to dynamically generate queue request notifications" was invented by Maxim Dorofiyenko (El Cerrito, Calif.), Nir Even Chen (Redwood City, Calif.), Dean Israel Grosbard (Albany, Calif.), Jeremy Alexander Karp (San Francisco), Manu Singh Sabherwal (San Francisco) and Lily Sierra (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 controlling requestor device queues by monitoring and utilizing the throughput rate of matched provider devices an...