US Patent Issued to Geotab on June 30 for "Systems for identifying vehicle idling" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,751, issued on June 30, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems for identifying vehicle idling" was invented by Kip Arthur Millar Badgery (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and models for identifying preventable idling in vehicles are described. Preventable idling events are identified which are outside of acceptability criteria, such as idling duration. Preventable idling events can be associated with drivers and/or vehicles to provide avenues to curb preventable idling. Fuel consumption and/or carbon emissions for preventable idling events are identified to quantify efficacy ...