US Patent Issued to ALLSTATE INSURANCE on Dec. 2 for "Driving trip and pattern analysis" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,636, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Driving trip and pattern analysis" was invented by Margaret A. Brinkmann (Palo Alto, Calif.), Daniel Kraft (Libertyville, Ill.), Nathan M. Bryer (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Eric D. Huls (Chicago) and Thomas Michael Warden (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving analysis server may be configured to receive vehicle location data and/or operation data from one or more vehicle systems, identify driving trips and/or driving patterns based on the vehicle data, determine risk assessment values corresponding to the driving trips and driving...