US Patent Issued to Lyft on Oct. 21 for "Utilizing provider device efficiency metrics to select a provider device for a future time window" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,527, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Utilizing provider device efficiency metrics to select a provider device for a future time window" was invented by Michael Kae-Uei Chang (San Francisco), David Florian Kayode Ikuye (San Francisco), Keshav Puranmalka (Seattle), Dan Xiaoyu Yu (San Francisco) and Conglei Zhang (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer readable media, and methods that provide graphical user interfaces comprising future transportation options with varying time windows at different transportation values and dynamica...