US Patent Issued to Lyft on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for sidewalk detection for personal mobility vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,391, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for sidewalk detection for personal mobility vehicles" was invented by Garrett Korda Drayna (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes determining vibration signals detected by a personal mobility vehicle, determining that the vibration signals correspond to an unexpected event occurred to the personal mobility vehicle, generating a feedback signal corresponding to the unexpected event, and transmitting the feedback signal corresponding to the unexpected event."

The patent was filed on Sept. 21, 2023, under...