ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,629, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to APPY RISK TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Cheshire, Great Britain).

"Impact detection system for vehicle" was invented by Robert Maddock (Crewe, Great Britain), Alex Wheeler (Crewe, Great Britain) and Raphael Ribard (Crewe, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact detection system for a vehicle includes an in-vehicle information capture device for vehicle monitoring having at least one sensor to capture input information in relation to at least one measurable parameter relating to the vehicle, and a mobile computing device operating a software application with an impact detection algorithm to ...