US Patent Issued to GEOTOLL on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for determining a road usage charge" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,734, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GEOTOLL INC. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Method and apparatus for determining a road usage charge" was invented by Jaime Andres Borras (Miramar, Fla.) and Wyatt Drake Geist (Davie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for determining a distance travelled by a vehicle for the purpose of assessing and settling, a road usage charge allows for determining a distance travelled with a vehicle. A mobile device can acquire odometer values which are subsequently reported to a system that confirms the distance drive and determines a road usage charge. Once the actual distance travelled b...