US Patent Issued to QUANATA on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for determining a vehicle driver using at least peer-to-peer network signals" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,662, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for determining a vehicle driver using at least peer-to-peer network signals" was invented by Bennett Smith (Inver Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying occupants of a vehicle, the computer-implemented method including: receiving, using a sensor associated with a first user device of a first vehicle occupant in the vehicle, an echo signal associated with a first ping signal emitted by the first user device; generating a first relative positioning map based upon the echo signal; and determining th...