US Patent Issued to Lyft on April 7 for "System and method for repositioning vehicles in a geographic area based on utilization metric" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,299, issued on April 7, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for repositioning vehicles in a geographic area based on utilization metric" was invented by Romain Clement (Campbell, Calif.) and Joseph Patrick Wendell Whinnery (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed for managing personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) across a geographic region. One or more sensor-equipped vehicles traverse the region and collect sensor data, which is used by a computing system to determine the respective state and location of PMVs. Based on these determinations, the system gene...