US Patent Issued to Lyft on Nov. 18 for "Dynamic matching of provider devices and requester devices based on event-trigger requests" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,795, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic matching of provider devices and requester devices based on event-trigger requests" was invented by Alexander James Hillis (Belmont, Calif.), James Nicholas De Angelis (San Francisco), Ying Jie Ding (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Shashwati Shradha (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes one or more embodiments of methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems that utilize computing models to intelligently match provider devices and requester devices in response to event-trigger transportation requests. In particular, in one...