US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I, AT&T Mobility II on July 8 for "Combining user device identity with vehicle information for traffic zone detection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,066, issued on July 8, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Combining user device identity with vehicle information for traffic zone detection" was invented by Reza Hussain Hussaini (Redmond, Wash.), Hendrawan Susanto (Issaquah, Wash.) and Erie Lai Har Lau (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards combining user identity information, corresponding to user profile data, with vehicle information, such as for use by a traffic zone management system that charges a fee for vehicle usage in a traffic zone. A user device, suc...