US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 25 for "Using geocoded provider models to improve efficiency of a transportation matching system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,358, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using geocoded provider models to improve efficiency of a transportation matching system" was invented by Gaurav Gupta (Burlingame, Calif.), Ehud Milo (San Mateo, Calif.), Omar Khalid (Redmond, Wash.), Amy J. Kim (San Francisco), Jacky Yi Han Lu (San Mateo, Calif.), Richard Zhao (San Francisco), Robert A. Farmer (San Francisco) and Akash Gaurav Shah (Millbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a transportation matching system that manages the allocation of transportation providers by training and utilizing multiple machine-learning mod...