ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,105, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Deployable autonomous service vehicle" was invented by Carlos JP Chavez (San Antonio), Gregory David Hansen (Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, Texas), Kristina Suniga-Cabrera (College Park, Md.), Dwayne Phillip Wilson (Crossroads, Texas), Timothy Benjamin Czerlinsky (Dallas) and David Patrick Dixon (Boerne, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of deploying a service, the method including: receiving data about a predicted event; determining a density of a population in a service area predicted to be affected...