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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2020
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Erik Keith Askin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jordan Elias Brooks, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason Robert Cerundolo, Oakland, CA (US);
Alexander Timothy Dixon, San Anselmo, CA (US);
Eahab Nagi El Naga, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marc Daniel Fenigstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Jeffrey Holachek, Emeryville, CA (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A docking station for micromobility transit vehicles is provided. The docking station may include a rack configured to dock a micromobility transit vehicle, a bollard for securing the micromobility transit vehicle within the rack, and a dock module configured to detect a characteristic of a lock cable securing the micromobility transit vehicle to the bollard. The dock module may include an inductive coil assembly disposed around a hole of the bollard to detect the lock cable inserted into the hole.