US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 10 for "Conditions for enabling a do not disturb while driving mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,662, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Conditions for enabling a do not disturb while driving mode" was invented by Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.) and Arnold Jason Gum (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives sensor data from a wearable device associated with a user of the UE, determines that the user is driving a vehicle based on the sensor data, and enables a Do Not Disturb While Driving mode of the UE based on the determination that the user is driving the vehicle."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2...