US Patent Issued to The Crawford Group on July 29 for "Mobile device-enhanced rental vehicle transactions" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,976, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Crawford Group Inc. (St. Louis).

"Mobile device-enhanced rental vehicle transactions" was invented by Ryan S. Johnson (St. Louis), Scott Stephens (St. Louis), Dave G. Smith (Wildwood, Mo.), Neil Fitzgerald (Wildwood, Mo.) and Derik Reiser (Maryville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A number of techniques are disclosed for making it more convenient and efficient for customers to conduct various rental vehicle transactions. As an example, a technique for performing an automated pickup of a rental vehicle using a mobile device is disclosed. As another example, a technique for performing an...