ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,072, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MARA Labs Inc. (Bengaluru, India).

"Overlap optimization of vehicle routes" was invented by Abhishek Roy (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems for optimizing vehicle route overlap in vehicle routing plans are disclosed. A method comprises selecting a first vehicle route and a second vehicle route of a plurality of vehicle routes using a plurality of overlap metrics, reallocating destination nodes of the first vehicle route and the second vehicle route to a first new route and a second new route using an ordered projection of the destination nodes onto a...