ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,067, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Boarding/alighting point determination method and boarding/alighting point determination device" was invented by Shuyang Jia (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoki Kojo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle allocation system is provided, which operates to move a vehicle to a predetermined point in response to a request from a user. The vehicle allocation system includes a boarding/alighting point determination apparatus, a control apparatus, and a user terminal apparatus. The boarding/alighting point...