ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,682, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and system for driver alerts based on sensor data and contextual information" was invented by Arash Hadapanah (Newton, Mass.), Hari Balakrishnan (Belmont, Mass.), Rafi Finegold (Sharon, Mass.), Samuel Madden (Newton, Mass.), Robert S. Kobetis (Cambridge, Mass.), Brian Sachetta (Boston), Sanujit Sahoo (Waltham, Mass.) and Gabor Tyukasz (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving, from sensor(s) of a mobile device in a driven vehicle, current speed of the vehicle, current travel direction of the vehicle,...