ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,713, issued on March 31, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Fleet-connected vehicle identification" was invented by Jeffrey Brandon (Phoenix) and Kenneth Ferguson (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing vehicle information to operators and service people without the use of a tool enabling communication directly between the vehicle and the operator or service person. In particular, systems and methods are provided for receiving a vehicle data request from an operator mobile device application, identifying a vehicle in close proximity to the operator mobile device, obta...