US Patent Issued to Geotab on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for restricting the use of a vehicle operator's terminal" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,466, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems and methods for restricting the use of a vehicle operator's terminal" was invented by Stephen Michael Fox (Oakville, Canada) and Jobin Thayilchira (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for restricting the use of the operator terminal of an operator of a vehicle are provided. In a method by an operator terminal, the operator terminal determines that the engine of the vehicle is running, determines that the operator is in the driver's seat, and changes the configuration of the operator terminal in response to determining t...