US Patent Issued to Lyft on Aug. 25 for "Approaches for encoding environmental information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,578, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Approaches for encoding environmental information" was invented by Ivan Kirigan (Redwood City, Calif.), David Tse-Zhou Lu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Sheng Yang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ranjith Unnikrishnan (Fremont, Calif.), Emilie Jeanne Anne Danna (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Weiyi Hou (Mountain View, Calif.), Daxiao Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Suneet Rajendra Shah (San Francisco) and Ying Liu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can access a plurality of parameter-based encodings providing a structured represen...