US Patent Issued to Lyft on Sept. 30 for "Illuminated communication unit for a vehicle within a transportation network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,914, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Illuminated communication unit for a vehicle within a transportation network" was invented by Alfred Charles Jones II (San Jose, Calif.), Azhar Kamal Meyer (Pacifica, Calif.), Marco Antonio Marroquin (San Francisco), Richard Wimmer (San Francisco), Ethan Duncan Eyler (San Francisco), John Sungchun Chiu (Hayward, Calif.) and Lakshmaiah Brahmasani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication unit for attachment to a vehicle is provided. The communication unit may include a housing, a mount, a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), and a thermal archi...