ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,046, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tracematics Ltd. (Dublin).
"System and methods for automatically checking-in a vehicle" was invented by Thomas Brady (County Dublin, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automatically checking-in a vehicle upon its return to a station or depot. A computing device may receive fleet management data that includes a return location for the vehicle from a fleet management system. The computing device may also receive geolocation data collected by an on-board unit of the vehicle, and use the received fleet management data and the received geolocation data to determine whether ...