ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,556, issued on June 2, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Individual information and recommendation system for vehicles" was invented by Pravin Vishwasrao Chopade (Troy, Mich.), Amit Mehta (Troy, Mich.), Gyanesh Shrivastava (Troy, Mich.) and Ashish Bansal (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing customized information to a user, that includes receiving at a backend portion historical information, regarding multiple features, from a first user and one or more other users, categorizing the information and users as a function of a similarity of certain features of the historical information...