US Patent Issued to Lyft on May 27 for "Systems and methods for determining a pre-request transportation match between transportation requestor devices and transportation provider devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,989, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for determining a pre-request transportation match between transportation requestor devices and transportation provider devices" was invented by Mayank Gulati (San Francisco), Harrison Chen-Hau Chu (San Francisco), Philip Gerstoft (San Francisco), Eli Spencer Goldstein (San Francisco) and Charles Parker Spielman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may match transportation requestor devices to transportation provider devices pre-request by using the same matching process employed by a matching engi...