US Patent Issued to Lyft on Sept. 23 for "Providing navigational data to a driver computing device to direct the driver computing device to a geographic region in view of a location specified by the driver computing device" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,261, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Providing navigational data to a driver computing device to direct the driver computing device to a geographic region in view of a location specified by the driver computing device" was invented by Igor Magazinik (Ramat Gan, Israel), Talmon Marco (Tel Aviv, Israel), Sunny Marueli (Nes Ziona, Israel), Ofer Samocha (Rishion le-Zion, Israel) and Ziv Haparnas (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processing device over a network from a driver computing device, a driver destination location and a scheduled ...