US Patent Issued to Lyft on March 31 for "Autonomous-vehicle dispatch based on fleet-level target objectives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,244, issued on March 31, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Autonomous-vehicle dispatch based on fleet-level target objectives" was invented by Farzad Cyrus Foroughi Abari (San Bruno, Calif.), Aaron Jacob Levine Friedman (San Francisco), John Houston (Los Altos, Calif.), Adam Hart Reis (San Francisco) and Alexander Thomas Starns (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes one or more computing systems determining a fleet-level objective for a vehicle. The fleet-level objective is associated with instructing the vehicle to travel a route according to route criteria based on the fle...