ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,029, issued on March 4, was assigned to UIPCO LLC (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for dynamically providing float funds for gig-economy workers" was invented by Anto Chirayil Thomas (Coppell, Texas), Subhalakshmi Selvam (Allen, Texas), Charlotte Thomas Creech (San Antonio), Nathan Lee Post (Rockport, Texas), Mathew Cyriac Kottoor (San Antonio), Nina Cooper (San Antonio) and Reynaldo Medina III (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system acquires a plurality of gig-income models for a plurality of gig-workers, and each of the plurality of gig-income models includes a corresponding expected income for a respectiv...