ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,174, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"System and method for gig driving detection" was invented by Clayton Jeschke (Algonquin, Ill.), Mariela Perignon (Chicago), Nicholas Winter (Chicago), Dipti Karmarkar (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Anjana Tayi (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for data processing, and more specifically for classifying telematics data to identify gig driving associated with vehicle trips. In one implementation, a method may include the operations of segmenting a trip of a vehicle to yie...