ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,016, issued on May 27, was assigned to Smartcar Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for processing vehicle requests" was invented by Sanketh Suresh Katta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sahas Suresh Katta (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for processing requests for vehicular data, including receiving a vehicle request for a vehicle parameter from a client system (e.g., third party application); verifying client access to the vehicle parameter; determining one or more parameter values for the requested vehicle parameter; and transmitting the one or more parameter values to the client s...