US Patent Issued to Lyft on June 23 for "Optimizing pickup locations for transportation requests based on context information utilizing a continued touch gesture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,220, issued on June 23, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optimizing pickup locations for transportation requests based on context information utilizing a continued touch gesture" was invented by Thaddeus Insuk Hwang (San Francisco), Charlie Lin (San Francisco), Yuanyuan Malek (San Francisco) and Limin Shen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system receives a session indicator and device-based location. The system utilize...