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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2021
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jordan Elias Brooks, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Timothy Dixon, San Anselmo, CA (US);
Robert Andrew Ewaschuk, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Chen-Yu Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dawei Liu, San Bruno, CA (US);
Scott McDaid, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ulhas Subramaniam, Fremont, CA (US);
Joseph Daniel Taylor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jennifer Uang, Emeryville, CA (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus for docking vehicles includes a housing structure comprising two side portions and a top portion connecting the two side portions, the two side portions and the top portion forming a cavity for receiving a portion of a vehicle, an electrically-powered locking assembly, carried by the housing structure, for securing the housing structure to the vehicle in response to the portion of the vehicle being received by the cavity of the housing structure, an electrically-powered communication device, coupled to the housing structure, for enabling data communication over a network, and a solar panel, carried by an external surface of one of the side portions of the housing structure, for independently converting light received by the solar panel into electrical energy.