US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 18 for "Leveraging traffic patterns to understand traffic rules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,424, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Leveraging traffic patterns to understand traffic rules" was invented by Sammy Omari (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Sameer Qureshi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes determining a connectivity model associated with a region of a road network, wherein the connectivity model was trained using vehicle traffic-pattern data comprising a first lane identifier and a second lane identifier indicating one or more lanes associated with a vehicle trajectory through the region and a traffic-light state corresponding to signal infor...