US Patent Issued to Lyft on Oct. 14 for "Intelligently transmitting digital transportation requests to provider devices to increase network coverage time and improve transportation system efficiency" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,802, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Intelligently transmitting digital transportation requests to provider devices to increase network coverage time and improve transportation system efficiency" was invented by Janie Jia Gu (San Francisco), Arman Jabbari (Seattle), Wilson James Turner (Dedham, Mass.) and Arthur Jean Francois Braud (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a request distribution system that can intelligently distribute transportation requests to provider devices to improve transportation system network coverage and efficiency. For example, the disclosed sys...