ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,025, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Methods and systems for driver identification" was invented by Brad Cordova (Cambridge, Mass.) and Joe Adelmann (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transforming measurements from an accelerometer of a mobile phone to a reference frame of a vehicle in which the mobile phone is disposed includes classifying the measurements into those caused by the vehicle. Using these measurements, the method detects positive or negative acceleration events, determines a direction of an event with respect to the mobile phone, and dete...