ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,366, issued on May 27, was assigned to Populus Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Fleet tracking and behavior modification in geographic areas of interest" was invented by Regina Ruby Lee Clewlow (San Francisco) and Fletcher Scott Foti (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for a mobility management system that serves as a data processing intermediary between mobility operators and governing entities that define rules associated with vehicle behavior occurring in a geographic region. The system receives from a mobility operator historical vehicle data including GPS locations for flee...