ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,874, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Driver scoring system and method using optimum path deviation" was invented by Sean J. Lawrence (Bangalore, India), Raghavendra Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Pravin Chander Chandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed to determine driver scoring that consider deviations in map and sensor data in driver score computations. The deviations can be based on deviations from an optimum driving path, and include the determination of vectors between a reference point and one or more landmarks, and one or more reference vectors bet...