ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,860, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Autonomous vehicle notification system" was invented by Taggart Matthiesen (Kentfield, Calif.), Jisi Guo (San Francisco), Sebastian Rolf Johan Brannstrom (San Francisco) and Jess Garms (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, using one or more sensors of a first vehicle, sensor data associated with an environment surrounding the first vehicle. The method includes detecting, using the sensor data, a second vehicle in the environment surrounding the first vehicle. The method includes determining, based on the sensor ...