ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,424, issued on April 8, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Unauthorized access detection" was invented by Emad S. Isaac (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses include receiving sensor data from a sensor system associated with a vehicle during operation of the vehicle over a plurality of modes of operation, computing, based on the sensor data, a vehicle fingerprint comprising one or more vehicle characteristics over the plurality of modes of operation, monitoring additional received sensor data from the sensor system during further operat...