ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,339, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for improving driver safety using uplift modeling" was invented by Kenneth J. Sanchez (San Francisco), Blake Konrardy (San Francisco), Eric Dahl (Newman Lake, Wash.), Aaron Shimer (Evanston, Ill.), Micah Wind Russo (Oakland, Calif.) and Theobolt N. Leung (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improving vehicular safety by utilizing uplift modeling techniques to improve a driving tip treatment generation model are provided. According to embodiments, a tip server can analyze telematics data associated with operation ...