ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,210, issued on April 21, was assigned to Credit Karma LLC (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method for smartphone-based accident detection" was invented by Jayanta Pal (San Francisco), Bipul Islam (San Francisco), Romit Roy Choudhury (San Francisco), Pankaj Risbood (San Francisco), Jonathan Matus (San Francisco) and Vishal Verma (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting an accident of a vehicle, the method including: receiving a movement dataset collected at least at one of a location sensor and a motion sensor arranged within the vehicle, during a time period of movement of the vehicle, extracting a set of m...