US Patent Issued to Esurance Insurance Services on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and method for automated vehicle roadside assistance" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. RE50,665, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Esurance Insurance Services Inc. (San Francisco).

"Apparatus and method for automated vehicle roadside assistance" was invented by Frederick Miles Harris (San Clemente, Calif.), Deepak Kumar Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.), Philip James Swift (Novato, Calif.) and Paul David Sykes (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive from a mobile device a request regarding a stranded vehicle. The request is processed to determine the location of the stranded vehicle. Additional information regarding the stranded vehicl...