US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 4 for "Transition of navigation modes for multi-modal transportation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,749, issued on March 4, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Transition of navigation modes for multi-modal transportation" was invented by Charles Parker Spielman (San Francisco), Mayank Gulati (San Francisco), Assaf Haim Shalev (San Francisco), Christine Mara Todorovich (San Francisco) and Mikhail Skobov (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improved transitioning and updating of navigations modes for multi-modal transportation routes are presented. A transportation route may be received that includes a first segment associated with a first modality and a second segment associated with a second moda...