US Patent Issued to TrueCar on Jan. 27 for "System and method for determination and use of spatial and geography based metrics in a network of distributed computer systems" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,558, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TrueCar Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"System and method for determination and use of spatial and geography based metrics in a network of distributed computer systems" was invented by Michael D. Swinson (Santa Monica, Calif.), Lin O'Driscoll (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Daniel Salazar (Torrance, Calif.), Ludovica Rizzo (Los Angeles) and Jacob LaCivita (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of vehicle data systems for use in distributed computer network are disclosed. Particular embodiments may determine and enhance vehicle data from various data sources distributed across the comp...