ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,369, issued on March 18, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Multi-stop route selection system" was invented by Elizabeth Schreier (Glenview, Ill.) and Jamie Elizabeth Grahn (Lakemoor, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-stop route selection system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device, and a server computer. The server computer may receive driving data of a driver of the vehicle and a vehicle location from the telematics device, determine one or more driving behaviors of the driver based on the driving data, receive data...