ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,540, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).
"Systems and methods for verifying provider-related information" was invented by Joan Devassy (San Mateo, Calif.), Brian Scott Peterson (San Francisco), Suresh Pragada (Dublin, Calif.), Namit Raisurana (San Carlos, Calif.) and Neil Pradip Shah (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, at a transportation management system, driving data associated with a computing device. The method may further include detecting, in response to receiving the driving data, a deviation from a transportation profile ...