US Patent Issued to Lyft on May 13 for "Dynamically transmitting online mode invitations to provider devices in response to detected changes in provider device efficiency" (California, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,609, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamically transmitting online mode invitations to provider devices in response to detected changes in provider device efficiency" was invented by Mengqi Niu (San Francisco), Wilson James Turner (Dedham, Mass.), Mayank Gulati (San Francisco), John Torres Fremlin (New york), Aidan John Church (San Francisco) and Garrett John van Ryzin (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses systems, methods, and computer-readable media that utilize computer-implemented models to monitor surplus provider device slots and transmit digital invitat...