US Patent Issued to Lyft on July 15 for "Providing ephemeral-transportation options in real time for sharing active transportations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,336, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing ephemeral-transportation options in real time for sharing active transportations" was invented by Janie Jia Gu (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 detecting a potential (or active) shared transportation request from a new requestor's device and an ongoing (or otherwise active) transportation for an existing requestor by a vehicle and then extemporaneously generating an ephemeral-transportation option for display on t...