ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,344, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Identifying correlated mobile computing devices associated with a common vehicle or trip" was invented by Hari Balakrishnan (Belmont, Mass.), Samuel Madden (Newton, Mass.) and Cesar Dante Maiorino (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining which mobile computing devices are traveling together in the same vehicle during one or more trips are disclosed. An example method includes determining, based on data received from one or more first sensors associated with a first mobile computing device, that the first mo...