ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,173, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Telematics-based driver training and credentialing" was invented by Eric Christopher Dahl (Newman Lake, Wash.), Scott Murray Anderson (Stanwell Park, Australia) and James Patrick Ryan (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for operating a computing device including: receiving telematics data from one or more sensors of an electronic device of a user; assessing driving behavior of the user based on the telematics data; generating a personalized digital training program for the user based at least on the driving behavior of the u...