US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on July 22 for "Systematic crowdsourcing of geolocation data" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,471, issued on July 22, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systematic crowdsourcing of geolocation data" was invented by James Christopher Watson (San Antonio) and Gina R. Smith (Boerne, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include systems and methods for systematic crowdsourcing of geolocation data. Transaction data that includes an identification of a point of sale device and an identification of a payment vehicle used in the transaction can be received. A confidence in a location of the point-of-sale device can be calculated. When the confidence of the locatio...