US Patent Issued to Lyft on May 20 for "Systems and methods for establishing and managing a multi-modal transportation ecosystem" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,508, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for establishing and managing a multi-modal transportation ecosystem" was invented by Tom Tao Chen (San Carlos, Calif.), Brian Geoffrey Hildebrand (San Francisco), Ameesha Sara Isaac (San Francsico, Calif.), Ryan Jadhav (San Francisco), Pavan Kulkarni (San Francisco), Kaan Meralan (San Francisco) and Yafeng Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include creating a digital transportation pass that allows transportation requestor devices to request transportation via the digital transpor...