ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,701, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamically generating geospatial-based-proportion metrics based on transportation events relative to geocoded areas" was invented by Praveen Athmanathan Panneer Selvam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Davide Crapis (San Francisco), Daniel Freund (New York), Jiayu Gong (Fremont, Calif.), Jae Ik Jin (San Francisco), Hao Yi Ong (San Francisco) and Shengke Zhou (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that can determine locations and geospatial scores for pick-up events and other trans...