US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on March 11 for "Systems and methods for generating fuel efficiency score based on cell phone sensor data" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,840, issued on March 11, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for generating fuel efficiency score based on cell phone sensor data" was invented by Satoru Inoue (Chicago), Jordan Nelson (Naperville, Ill.) and Jacob Kruse (Northbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations claimed and described herein provide systems and methods for determining fuel efficiency based on sensor data from a mobile device. In one implementation, sensor data from a mobile device is collected. The sensor data includes a dataset that reflects a last trip on a vehicle by the mobile device, wherein the s...