US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 11 for "Dynamically adjusting a pool of transportation provider devices in a prioritized-dispatch mode using availability indicators" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,001, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamically adjusting a pool of transportation provider devices in a prioritized-dispatch mode using availability indicators" was invented by Praveen Athmanathan Panneer Selvam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Elijah Alpern Boehm (Hoboken, N.J.), Davide Crapis (San Francisco), Ramon Dario Iglesias (San Francisco), Varun Kashyap Krishnan (San Diego), Derek William Salama (San Francisco), Shashi Kant Sharma (Redwood City, Calif.) and Xiaoling Charlene Zhou (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses systems, methods, and computer-readabl...