ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,993, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for generating lane data using vehicle trajectory sampling" was invented by Luca Del Pero (London), Robert Kesten (London), Stepan Simsa (London) and Michal Szabados (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) identify a set of vehicle trajectories that are associated with a segment of a road network, (ii) identify a first cluster of sampling points between the identified set of vehicle trajectories and a first sampling position along the segment, wherein the first clust...