ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,660, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for determining and leveraging geography-dependent relative desirability of products" was invented by Jason Hoover (Grapevine, Texas), Avid Ghamsari (Plano, Texas), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, Texas), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, Texas) and Micah Price (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method may be used for regulating vehicle stock. The method may include receiving one or more queries indicative of one or more characteristics of a vehicle for purchase by a ...