US Patent Issued to Lyft on July 21 for "Customizing mapping interfaces using contemporaneous device request data in response to application interactions" (California, Vermont, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,471, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Customizing mapping interfaces using contemporaneous device request data in response to application interactions" was invented by Robert Morgan Holland (Shelburne, Vt.), Joshua James Ketellapper (San Francisco), Peiti Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Seven Shurygin (San Francisco), Xing Xing (Fremont, Calif.) and Sizhu Zong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure covers computer-implemented methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that efficiently determine and present real-time (or near-real time) trending destination locations in a gr...