US Patent Issued to Lyft on June 17 for "Using a predictive request model to optimize provider resources" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,946, issued on June 17, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using a predictive request model to optimize provider resources" was invented by Saurabh Bajaj (San Francisco), Davide Crapis (Berkeley, Calif.), Eran Davidov (San Francisco), Omar Khalid (Redmond, Wash.) and Ehud Milo (San Mateo, 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 disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system trains a predictive request model to generate a metric predicted to trigger an increase in transportat...