ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,910, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).
"Vehicle mode detection systems" was invented by Pratheek M. Harish (Chicago), Aaron D. Daly (Belmont, Calif.), Jeremy Ber (Wheeling, Ill.) and Andrew L. Carbery (Bartlett, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and devices for vehicle mode detection based on acceleration data and location data during a trip detected by mobile devices in a vehicle. According to some examples, location data will be compared to known routeway data to detect a vehicle mode. In other examples acceleration data wil...