Abstract
According to news reporting originatin g from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventors Ch achra, Ricky (San Francisco, CA, US), Chiao, Tzu-Hsin (Seattle, WA, US), Frederi ck, Adriel (Berkeley, CA, US), Shekhawat, Ashivni (Emeryville, CA, US), Sholley, Christopher (San Francisco, CA, US), Thai, Jerome Hong-Phat (Berkeley, CA, US), filed on September 18, 2023, was published online on September 17, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 12094024, is Lyft Inc. (San Francisc o, California, United States). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Service matching systems increasingly use web and mobile appl ications to manage on-demand requests for transportation. Some on-demand service matching systems, for example, receive requests from persons through a mobile a pplication requesting transportation from one geographic area to another geograp hic area. To fulfill such requests, on-demand service matching systems tradition ally use a computational model that matches nearby transportation vehicles with requests from persons seeking transportation. By efficiently matching nearby tra nsportation vehicles with requests, on-demand service matching systems can use a computational model to reduce an estimated time of arrival of a transportation vehicle to a requestor's location.
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