US Patent Issued to Telenav on Feb. 17 for "Compute system with driver distraction detection mechanism and method of operation thereof" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,886, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telenav Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compute system with driver distraction detection mechanism and method of operation thereof" was invented by FNU Peeyush Kumar (Boston), Maryam Asghari (Sharon, Mass.) and Jianxin Gong (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation for a compute system comprising: monitoring a phone sensor array to detect a trigger; calculating a position of a cell phone based on the trigger and sensor data from the phone sensor array; predicting a driver distraction event by analyzing the sensor data and the position of the cell phone; compiling a driver distr...