ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,868, issued on July 21, was assigned to GeoFrenzy Inc. (Tiburon, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining a location of a vehicle within a geofence" was invented by Benjamin T. Jones (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods and systems for determining a location of a vehicle within a geofence. The location of the vehicle is determined by a fencing agent on a vehicle. The geofence is defined by a plurality of geographic designators, with the plurality of geographic designators each being associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address, preferably an IPv6 address."

The patent was fi...