ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,097, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Driver alerting and feedback" was invented by Sarthak Rajvanshi (Brookline, Mass.) and William Evan Welbourne (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for providing safety event alerts to drivers and for receiving feedback from drivers in real time. A driver safety alerting method can include monitoring, using at least one safety monitoring device, information indicative of driver safety, detecting, using the information indicative of driver safety, a safety event, alerting a driver of the safety event, and r...