ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,705, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and system for vehicle crash prediction using multi-vehicle data" was invented by Yuting Qi (Lexington, Mass.), Rizki Syarif (Lexington, Mass.), Edward J. Gramer (Dover, Mass.) and Cornelius F. Young (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein provide for methods and systems for vehicle crash prediction using multi-vehicle data. In one example, a method includes receiving event data for events identified by devices disposed in a plurality of vehicles from movements of the vehicles collected by the devi...