ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,561, issued on June 3, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optimizing transportation networks through dynamic user interfaces" was invented by Harrison Joel Bowden (Oakland, Calif.), Zachary Alistair Cole (San Francisco), Maxamillion Ab Gustofson (Burlingame, Calif.), Jonathan Aaron Tourtellot (San Francisco), Patrick Steven Wong (San Francisco) and Frank Taehyun Yoo (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to providing a dynamic graphical user interface for efficiently presenting users with relevant ride information throughout the fulfilment of a ride request. In some embodiments, the ...