ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,065, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for configuring autonomous vehicle operation" was invented by Alan Agon (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nastaran Ghadar (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yunjian Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Mason Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Carlos Alberto De Magalhaes Massera Filho (Mountain View, Calif.), Carey Stover Nachenberg (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Sammy Omari (Los Altos, Calif.), Ana Sofia Rufino Ferreira (Berkeley, Calif.) and Meng Tao (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect an occurrence of a cond...