US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 18 for "Systems and methods for routing decisions based on door usage data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,372, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for routing decisions based on door usage data" was invented by Michael Jonathan DiCarlo (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying a transportation task within a dynamic transportation network, accessing a database of door closing event locations, wherein the database is populated from observed door closing events within the dynamic transportation network, determining location information specifying at least one of a pickup location and a drop-off location for the tr...