US Patent Issued to Enterprise Holdings on Feb. 3 for "Rental/car-share vehicle access and management system and method" (California, Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,005, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Enterprise Holdings Inc. (St. Louis).

"Rental/car-share vehicle access and management system and method" was invented by James E. Jefferies (Glendale, Calif.), Rod W. DeMay (Los Angeles), Gurgen L. Lachinyan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Derik Reiser (Maryville, Ill.) and Jeffrey T. Lauman (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described that wirelessly connects vehicles with a remote computer system using a vehicle control unit that is re-usable with different vehicles. The vehicle control unit can be detachably connectable with different vehicles over time to support rental transactions o...