ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,890, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) (Bethesda, Md.).

"System and method for classifying a location profile using a route map of ciphered location data" was invented by Ying Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Manoj Varma Namburi (Anna, Texas) and Michael J. Chan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are system and methods for classifying a location profile including a location characteristic database, memory, and a processor. The processor is configured with program code to capture a time series of live coarse location data from a mobile computing platform traveling along a r...