ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,779, issued on July 21, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).
"Roadside assistance system" was invented by Kim Barth (Northbrook, Ill.) and Christopher Adcock (Henrico, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing roadside assistance services are described herein. The system can include network computing devices and computing devices associated with vehicles and service vehicles. Requests for roadside services can be automatically assigned to an available service provider. Service providers can be ranked based on a variety of criteria and requests can be assigned based on the...