ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,460, issued on June 17, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Display of multi-modal vehicle indicators on a map" was invented by Anna Pan (San Francisco), Bradley Ellis (San Francisco), Jaden Junghyun Choi (Temecula, Calif.), Kevin Michael Tezlaf (Oakland, Calif.), Mario Gomez-Hall (San Francisco), Robert Joseph Marsan (San Francisco), Sravanthi Kadali (San Francisco), Christine Mara Todorovich (San Francisco) and Marc Haumann (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying and selectively displaying indications of nearby vehicles are presented. In one example, a method is provided that includ...