ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,382, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and system for power management in a standalone vehicle monitoring device" was invented by Jeremy Elson (Cambridge, Mass.) and David Jacobowitz (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device positionable in a passenger compartment of a vehicle can include a processor, an accelerometer, and a wireless transmitter. The processor can receive, while in a hibernation mode, an interrupt signal from the accelerometer based on the accelerometer detecting an acceleration of the vehicle that exceeds a predefined acceleration threshol...