ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,973, issued on May 12, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Customized mobile device management" was invented by Aditi Dugar (Redwood City, Calif.), Sean McGee (San Francisco), Faiz Abbasi (San Francisco), Christopher Siling Xue (San Francisco), Lucas Doyle (San Francisco), Zack Littke-Smith (San Francisco), Jennifer Kao (San Francisco), Yogesh Bhumralkar (Belmont, Calif.) and Derrek Harrison (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for customized mobile device management. Mobile devices are used to aid vehicle operators but may also distract veh...