US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 17 for "Tandem riding detection on personal mobility vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,197, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Tandem riding detection on personal mobility vehicles" was invented by Jennifer Uang (Emeryville, Calif.), Paul Young Durkee (Pacifica, Calif.), Sachith Anurudde Dunatunga (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jens Paul Windau (San Francisco) and Garrett Korda Drayna (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In particular embodiments, a computing system may collect, for each ride of a plurality of rides, first ride data associated with a user riding a personal mobility vehicle during a certain time period. The system may calculate, for each ride, an approximate load on the...