ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,934, issued on Aug. 4.
"Autonomously securing a trailer for hire" was invented by Matthew Logsdon (Catoosa, Okla.) and Roy Logsdon (Owasso, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer product and method for autonomously renting equipment with a machine learning model that is trained on a set of positive image pairs and a set of negative image pairs from prior rental transactions, each pair of images consisting of an image of a driver license and an image of a selfie photograph ("selfie"). The method includes receiving a computer communication from a renter that includes a rental request to rent the equipment for a rental duration....