US Patent Issued to Lyft on Aug. 4 for "Free lock detection of a micromobility transit vehicle systems and methods" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,309, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Free lock detection of a micromobility transit vehicle systems and methods" was invented by Garrett Korda Drayna (San Carlos, Calif.), Gary Shambat (San Francisco), Jacqueline Benesch Tandler (New York), Griffin Samuel Valentine Thomson (San Francisco) and Jens Paul Windau (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods associated with free lock detection of a micromobility vehicle. Data from one or more sensors of the micromobility vehicle may be received and compared to a threshold stored or determined for the micromobil...