ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,053, issued on July 8, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for charging personal mobility vehicles via docks" was invented by Yannik Harpin (Montreal), Alexander Timothy Dixon (San Anselmo, Calif.), Marie-Pierre Gendron (Mercier, Canada), Carl Germain (Quebec, Canada), Rochus Emanuel Jacob (San Francisco), Kelly Erin Johnson (Oakland, Calif.), Carlos Henrique Petzl Lorenz (Montreal), Nicholaus Ian Lubinski (Fairfax, Calif.), Timothy Rex Martin (San Francisco), Christopher Paul Merrill (San Francisco), Cyril Francis Meyer (San Francisco), Jacqueline Tandler (San Francisco) and Griffin Samuel Valentine Thomson (San Francisco).

According to the...