ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,918, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Quick Quack Car Wash Holdings LLC (Roseville, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for autonomously operating a service environment" was invented by Josh David Schumacher (Sacramento, Calif.), Joseph Allen Steele III (Plumas Lake, Calif.) and Jonathan Kevin Cheng (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for autonomously operating a service environment. The apparatus includes a processor configured to receive a service request from a user interface, process the service request by indexing data extracted from the service request using a rule-based algorithm to classify the...