ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,482, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).
"Location accuracy using local device communications" was invented by Taggart Matthiesen (San Francisco), Sergey Schlykovich (San Francisco), Ethan Eyler (San Francisco), Sebastian Brannstrom (San Francisco) and Sean Murphy (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for improving the accuracy of location information for requestor and provider devices in an dynamic transportation matching system using local communications between computing devices. For example, embodiments allow a provider computing devi...