ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,683, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for using mobile device-based crash detection to trigger vehicle data collection" was invented by William Ryan Kreamer (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for selectively collecting vehicle sensor data in response to a vehicle crash detection, which can conserve computing resources. A backend server system can perform the techniques to evaluate the severity of a potential crash or for another purpose. As one example, the backend server system can receive an indication of a potential cra...