Apparatus, systems, and methods for charging personal mobility vehicles via docks

US12351053B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lyft, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Yannik Harpin · Montréal, CA
• Alexander Timothy Dixon · San Anselmo, US
• Marie-Pierre Gendron · Mercier, CA
• Carl Germain · Keyano, CA
• Rochus Emanuel Jacob · New York, US
• Kelly Erin Johnson · San Francisco, US
• Carlos Henrique Petzl Lorenz · Aliso Viejo, US
• Nicholaus Ian Lubinski · San Francisco, US
• Timothy Rex Martin · San Francisco, US
• Christopher Paul Merrill · San Francisco, US
• Cyril Francis Meyer, III · San Francisco, US
• Jacqueline Benesch Tandler · New York, US
• Griffin Samuel Valentine Thomson · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2023
• Grant date: Jul 8, 2025
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T90/16
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The disclosed apparatus may include a mount component that is mountable to a structural component of a personal mobility vehicle and a dock interface component that is adapted to securely interface with a dock via an interaction between the dock interface component and the dock. The mount component is mountable to any of at least one type of bicycle at a first position and at least one type of scooter at a second position. A docking point of the dock is configured to be interfaceable with any of the at least one type of bike at the first position and the at least one type of scooter at the second position. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.