US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Feb. 17 for "Methods and systems for making a pre-payment from a vehicle" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,095, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Methods and systems for making a pre-payment from a vehicle" was invented by Leopoldo Luera III (San Antonio) and Charles Bear (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for making a pre-payment. In some embodiments, a user is provided with a mobile wallet; information populating at least one payment instrument to the mobile wallet is received; information that the mobile wallet is usable with respect to the vehicle is received; information that the mobile wallet has been presented by the vehicle to ...