US Patent Issued to Lyft on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for detecting an environment external to a personal mobile vehicle in a fleet management system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,497, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for detecting an environment external to a personal mobile vehicle in a fleet management system" was invented by Ashley John Cooper (San Francisco), Alison Marie Thurber (San Francisco), Eahab Nagi El Naga (San Francisco), Christy Fernandez Cull (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Abdullah Ahsan Zaidi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes a computing system obtaining, via one or more sensors of a personal mobile vehicle (PMV), a reflection signal indicating a characteristic of a road surface of an environment external ...