US Patent Issued to Mars on June 23 for "Systems and methods for service location optimization" (American, Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,489, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for service location optimization" was invented by Asif Gulambhai Pachigar (Slough, Great Britain), Anuj Sethi (Earley, Great Britain), Matthew D. Scherzer (Maplewood, N.J.), Michael Weinstock (Harrisburg, Pa.), Michael C. Pedi (Chicago), Sumeet Pundlik (Doddakannelli, India), Kanika Goyal (Bhopal, India), Debasis Panda (Bhubaneswar, India), Suman Kumar Rana (Hyderabad, India) and Pranav Alva (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for service location optimization may include methods for deriving service location utilization data from vid...