US Patent Issued to Lyft on Dec. 16 for "Wheel movement trigger for battery wake-up systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,928, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Wheel movement trigger for battery wake-up systems and methods" was invented by Jason Cerundolo (San Francisco), Gary Shambat (San Francisco) and Alison Thurber (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micromobility transit vehicle may include a wheel, a dynamo, a control module, and a battery. The dynamo may be associated with the wheel and configured to transmit a first signal based at least on a detection of one or more movements of the wheel that meets or exceeds a threshold movement of the wheel. The control module may be configured to receive the first s...