ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,856, issued on March 17, was assigned to CARET HOLDINGS INC. (Columbus, Ohio).

"Inferring operator characteristics from device motion data" was invented by Kyle Patrick Schmitt (Chicago), Cheng Li (Fremont, Calif.), Evan Michael Byrne (Columbus, Ohio), Scott David Huber (Columbus, Ohio) and Kyle Jacob Parsons (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Raw sensor data from a device of a user is collected. The raw data does not include location data for the device. The data is preprocessed to identify driving trips in which the user had the device. The trip data is provided to machine-learning models (MLMs) as input and the MLMs pro...