ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,979, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).
"Driver passenger detection using ultrasonic sensing" was invented by Emad Isaac (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to using ultrasonic or other types of signals to detect a driver in a vehicle. A computing platform may receive ultrasonic sensing data associated with mobile devices in the vehicle from a signal transmitter. Unique identifiers of the mobile devices may be determined. Based on the ultrasonic sensing data and the unique identifier, a relative distance from the signal transmitter to each mobile device in ...