ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,661, issued on June 17, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Shared mobility service passenger matching based on passenger attributes" was invented by Rachel Edelshteyn Allen (Chicago), Neal Edgar Coleman II (Evanston, Ill.) and Grady Irey (Des Plaines, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are described for receiving, by a computing platform, information about a first user of a shared mobility service, generating, based on the information about the first user, a first user profile comprising one or more first user attributes, comparing the one or more first user attributes to one or more secon...