ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,646, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).
"Transportation route planning and generation" was invented by Charles Parker Spielman (San Francisco), Mayank Gulati (San Francisco), Karina Goot (San Francisco), Priyanka Madhav Phatak (San Francisco), Michael Francis Lodick (San Francisco) and Jatin Chopra (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for planning and creating transportation routes with multiple modalities are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a transportation request that includes a first location and a second location. A transportation p...