US Patent Issued to Lyft on May 13 for "Systems and methods for matching transportation requestor devices with autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,606, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for matching transportation requestor devices with autonomous vehicles" was invented by Gavin Sebastian Hurley (San Francisco), Leighton Kamaile Jen (Redwood City, Calif.), Jody Metzenbaum Kelman (San Francisco), Rex See Chun Lam (San Francisco), Jonathan Patrick O'Keefe (Oakland, Calif.), Oleg Vadim Panichev (San Francisco), Arkesh Jagdish Patel (San Francisco), John Robert Tighe (San Francisco) and Adam Alexander Wolf (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying and notifying requ...