ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,134, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing information to users of a transportation system using augmented reality elements" was invented by Ethan Duncan Eyler (San Francisco), Martin Conte MacDonell (San Francisco), Taggart Matthiesen (San Francisco), Jesse Jones McMillin (San Francisco), Robert Earl Rasmusson Jr. (San Francisco) and Mark David Teater (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environmen...