ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,937, issued on April 8, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Ecological impact evaluation promoting decreased ecological impact" was invented by Rachel Michelle Ballew (San Antonio), Hanna Elizabeth Rafferty (San Antonio), Jeorge Luis Fabre (San Antonio), Gregory Brian Meyer (San Antonio) and Stacy Callaway Huggar (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems described herein are directed to evaluating an individual's ecological impact to promote reductions for that impact. An ecological impact evaluator can automatically retrieve behavioral data of a user that the evaluator ...