ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,612, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).
"Optimizing engagement of transportation providers" was invented by Janette Yuen-Sum Fong (San Francisco), Joanna Mun Yee Chan (Redwood City, Calif.), Bao Kham Chau (Oakland, Calif.), Dennis Li (San Francisco), Alex Collier Mazure (San Francisco), Jonathan Patrick O'Keefe (Oakland, Calif.), Ko-Ay Timmy Siauw (Seattle), Anthony Michael Padin (South San Francisco, Calif.), Harel Sheniak (San Francisco) and Samuel Soffes (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and...