ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,287, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for displaying autonomous vehicle environmental awareness" was invented by Han Han Xue (San Francisco), Jisi Guo (San Francisco), Katherine Marisa Dill (San Francisco), Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen (San Francisco), Audrey Liu (Oakland, Calif.), Oleg Vadim Panichev (San Francisco) and Robert Earl Rasmusson Jr. (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include displaying vehicle environment awareness. In some embodiments, a visualization system may display an abstract representation of a vehicle's physi...