US Patent Issued to Lyft on July 7 for "Vehicle docking structure with a passive latching system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,572, issued on July 7, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Vehicle docking structure with a passive latching system" was invented by Erik Keith Askin (San Francisco), Jeffrey Alan Boyd (San Rafael, Calif.), Alexander Timothy Dixon (San Anselmo, Calif.), Robert Andrew Ewaschuk (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Emily Christina Figurski (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Tristin Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Scott McDaid (San Francisco), Oliver Maximilian Mueller (San Francisco), Neil Richard Anthony Saldanha (San Francisco), Andrea Claude Ramos Santos (San Francisco), Ulhas Subramaniam (Fremont, Calif.) and Joseph Daniel Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tradema...