ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,805, issued on May 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"User-based vehicle determination" was invented by Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, Texas), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, Texas) and Micah Price (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented techniques and systems for generating vehicle profiles may include scanning a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle located at a respective vehicle location, identifying respective vehicle locations for each of the plurality of vehicles, based on scanning the plurality of vehicles, associating a vehicle identification tag for each vehicle with its respective ve...