US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 17 for "Systems and methods for coordinated collection of street-level image data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,040, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for coordinated collection of street-level image data" was invented by Renee Park (San Francisco), Saurabh Saraf (San Mateo, Calif.), Ramesh Rangarajan Sarukkai (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Vinay Shet (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) identifying, by a server computer system, a provider computing device for use in capturing street-level image data, where the provider computing device controls a camera positioned to capture street-level imagery outside the vehicle, (ii) determinin...