US Patent Issued to Lyft on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for immediate matching of requestor devices to provider devices" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,932, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for immediate matching of requestor devices to provider devices" was invented by Ido Avigdor Bright (Seattle), Harrison Chen-Hau Chu (San Francisco), Mayank Gulati (San Francisco) and Charles Parker Spielman (San Francsico, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include instant and optimized matching of transportation requesters with transportation providers by precomputing and caching evaluations of matching schemes between existing requests and available providers, where each of the matching schemes e...