US Patent Issued to Lyft on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for deriving path-prior data using collected trajectories" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,340, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for deriving path-prior data using collected trajectories" was invented by Filippo Brizzi (London) and Lorenzo Peppoloni (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is configured to (i) identify a set of trajectories traveled through a path within an area, (ii) for each of two or more sampling positions along the path, (a) determine a respective set of intersection points between the identified set of trajectories and the sampling position and (b) generate a respective aggregation of the r...