US Patent Issued to Lyft on June 17 for "Localizing transportation requests utilizing an image based transportation request interface" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,060, issued on June 17, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Localizing transportation requests utilizing an image based transportation request interface" was invented by Ferhan Elvanoglu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to the disclosed embodiments, the transportation matching system utilizes an image-based transportation request interface and environmental digital image stream to efficiently generate transportation requests with accurate pickup locations. For instance,...