ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,224, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identifying vehicle filling stations and generating related visual indications" was invented by Leon Oliver Stenneth (Chicago) and Catalin Bogdan Capota (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying vehicle filling stations and generating related visual indications are provided. In some examples, vehicle data is received that corresponds to a plurality of vehicles. From the vehicle data, a first subset of data is extracted that corresponds to location data and one of a fuel or charge level state change of each of ...