ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,960, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).
"Fleet maintenance management for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Farzad Cyrus Foroughi Abari (San Bruno, Calif.), Aaron Jacob Levine Friedman (San Francisco), John Houston (Houston, Calif.), Adam Hart Reis (San Francisco) and Alexander Thomas Starns (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In particular embodiments, a computing system may determine a predicted amount of ride requests for a plurality of collectively-managed vehicles and determine an availability of the collectively-managed vehicles to satisfy the predicted amount of ride requests. Sub...