ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,553, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Smart ring system for measuring driver impairment levels and using machine learning techniques to predict high risk driving behavior" was invented by Kenneth Jason Sanchez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting risk exposure can include receiving a set of data collected via a smart ring. The method also can include analyzing, via a trained machine learning (ML) model, the set of data collected via the smart ring to determine whether the set of data collected via the smart ring (a) represents an impairment pattern or (b) correlates to a ...