US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on June 3 for "Detection of mobile device location within vehicle using vehicle based data and mobile device based data" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,879, issued on June 3, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Detection of mobile device location within vehicle using vehicle based data and mobile device based data" was invented by Soren K. Lundsgaard (Inverness, Ill.), Dana Ferguson (Chicago) and Jared S. Snyder (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more location analysis computing devices, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for determining the position of a mobile device (smartphone, tablet computer) within an interior of a vehicle. The position of the mobile device may be calculated by detecting changes in accelerometer data. ...